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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:28:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:28:01 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/persistence.rst b/Doc/library/persistence.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78e40f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/persistence.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ + +.. _persistence: + +**************** +Data Persistence +**************** + +The modules described in this chapter support storing Python data in a +persistent form on disk. The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`marshal` modules can turn +many Python data types into a stream of bytes and then recreate the objects from +the bytes. The various DBM-related modules support a family of hash-based file +formats that store a mapping of strings to other strings. The :mod:`bsddb` +module also provides such disk-based string-to-string mappings based on hashing, +and also supports B-Tree and record-based formats. + +The list of modules described in this chapter is: + + +.. toctree:: + + pickle.rst + copy_reg.rst + shelve.rst + marshal.rst + anydbm.rst + whichdb.rst + dbm.rst + gdbm.rst + dbhash.rst + bsddb.rst + dumbdbm.rst + sqlite3.rst |