Semidbm

Semidbm is a fast, pure python implementation of a dbm, which is a persistent key value store. It allows you to get and set keys through a dict interface:

import semidbm
db = semidbm.open('testdb', 'c')
db['foo'] = 'bar'
print db['foo']
db.close()

These values are persisted to disk, and you can later retrieve these key/value pairs:

# Then at a later time:
db = semidbm.open('testdb', 'r')
# prints "bar"
print db['foo']

It was written with these things in mind:

  • Pure python, supporting python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4.
  • Cross platform, works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.
  • Supports CPython, pypy, and jython (versions 2.7-b3 and higher).
  • Simple and Fast (See Benchmarking Semidbm).

Post feedback and issues on github issues, or check out the latest changes at the github repo.

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