Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: LazyDB
Version: 0.1.68
Summary: LazyDB is a basic wrapper around the Python shelve flatfile dbm module.
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/LazyDB
Author: mek
Author-email: michael.karpeles@gmail.com
License: LICENSE.txt
Description: LazyDB
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        ![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mekarpeles/lazydb.png)
        
        LazyDB is a basic wrapper around the Python shelve flatfile dbm
        module. LazyDB provides a couchdb/S3 like layer of abstraction around
        shelve, allowing convenient access (read and write) to shelve without
        sacrificing the convenience of writing pickled python objects to disk.
        
        From the help(shelve) documentation: A "shelf" is a persistent,
        dictionary-like object.  The difference with dbm databases is that the
        values (not the keys!) in a shelf can be essentially arbitrary Python
        objects -- anything that the "pickle" module can handle.  This
        includes most class instances, recursive data types, and objects
        containing lots of shared sub-objects.  The keys are ordinary strings.
        
        Disclaimer: I wouldn't suggest using this module for production
        projects as I predict it having difficulty scaling. LazyDB is ideal
        for supporting smaller projects with light data in which the
        programmer must move quickly and intends to implement an alternate db
        solution sooner rather than later. The intent is to provide a more
        elegant interface for utilizing the shelve module, not to create an
        efficient replacement.
        
        Typical usage often looks like this::
        
            #!/usr/bin/env Python
            
            from lazydb import Db
        
            class LazyUser:
            	  def __init__(self, name):
        	      self.name = name
        
            db = Db('/home/user/db')
            db.put('user', LazyUser('lazybones'))
            u = db.get('user')
            u.name
        
        ## Contributors
        
        Currently, this project is maintained by Mek.
        
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