Metadata-Version: 1.2 Name: sqlitedict Version: 1.4.0 Summary: Persistent dict in Python, backed up by sqlite3 and pickle, multithread-safe. Home-page: https://github.com/piskvorky/sqlitedict Author: Radim Rehurek, Victor R. Escobar, Andrey Usov, Prasanna Swaminathan, Jeff Quast Author-email: various Maintainer: Radim Rehurek Maintainer-email: me@radimrehurek.com License: Apache 2.0 Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlitedict Description: ================================================================= sqlitedict -- persistent ``dict``, backed-up by SQLite and pickle ================================================================= |Travis|_ |Downloads|_ |License|_ .. |Travis| image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/piskvorky/sqlitedict.svg .. |Downloads| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/sqlitedict.svg .. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/sqlitedict.svg .. _Travis: https://travis-ci.org/piskvorky/sqlitedict .. _Downloads: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlitedict .. _License: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlitedict A lightweight wrapper around Python's sqlite3 database with a simple, Pythonic dict-like interface and support for multi-thread access: .. code-block:: python >>> from sqlitedict import SqliteDict >>> mydict = SqliteDict('./my_db.sqlite', autocommit=True) >>> mydict['some_key'] = any_picklable_object >>> print mydict['some_key'] # prints the new value >>> for key, value in mydict.iteritems(): >>> print key, value >>> print len(mydict) # etc... all dict functions work >>> mydict.close() Pickle is used internally to (de)serialize the values. Keys are arbitrary strings, values arbitrary pickle-able objects. If you don't use autocommit (default is no autocommit for performance), then don't forget to call ``mydict.commit()`` when done with a transaction: .. code-block:: python >>> # using SqliteDict as context manager works too (RECOMMENDED) >>> with SqliteDict('./my_db.sqlite') as mydict: # note no autocommit=True ... mydict['some_key'] = u"first value" ... mydict['another_key'] = range(10) ... mydict.commit() ... mydict['some_key'] = u"new value" ... # no explicit commit here >>> with SqliteDict('./my_db.sqlite') as mydict: # re-open the same DB ... print mydict['some_key'] # outputs 'first value', not 'new value' Features -------- * Values can be **any picklable objects** (uses ``cPickle`` with the highest protocol). * Support for **multiple tables** (=dicts) living in the same database file. * Support for **access from multiple threads** to the same connection (needed by e.g. Pyro). Vanilla sqlite3 gives you ``ProgrammingError: SQLite objects created in a thread can only be used in that same thread.`` Concurrent requests are still serialized internally, so this "multithreaded support" **doesn't** give you any performance benefits. It is a work-around for sqlite limitations in Python. Installation ------------ The module has no dependencies beyond Python itself. The minimum Python version is 2.5, continuously tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 `on Travis `_. Install or upgrade with:: easy_install -U sqlitedict or from the `source tar.gz `_:: python setup.py install Documentation ------------- Standard Python document strings are inside the module: .. code-block:: python >>> import sqlitedict >>> help(sqlitedict) (but it's just ``dict`` with a commit, really). **Beware**: because of Python semantics, ``sqlitedict`` cannot know when a mutable SqliteDict-backed entry was modified in RAM. For example, ``mydict.setdefault('new_key', []).append(1)`` will leave ``mydict['new_key']`` equal to empty list, not ``[1]``. You'll need to explicitly assign the mutated object back to SqliteDict to achieve the same effect: .. code-block:: python >>> val = mydict.get('new_key', []) >>> val.append(1) # sqlite DB not updated here! >>> mydict['new_key'] = val # now updated For developers -------------- Install:: # pip install nose # pip install coverage To perform all tests:: # make test-all To perform all tests with coverage:: # make test-all-with-coverage Comments, bug reports --------------------- ``sqlitedict`` resides on `github `_. You can file issues or pull requests there. History ------- **1.4.0**: fix regression where iterating over keys/values/items returned a full list instead of iterator **1.3.0**: improve error handling in multithreading (`PR #28 `_); 100% test coverage. **1.2.0**: full python 3 support, continuous testing via `Travis CI `_. ---- ``sqlitedict`` is open source software released under the `Apache 2.0 license `_. Copyright (c) 2011-now `Radim Řehůřek `_ and contributors. 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