This package provides C bindings for `libsophia <http://sphia.org/>`_, which is a ligthweight DBM-like database. Available operations on a database are inserting or deleting a key-value pair, or retrieving a value given its key. It is also possible to traverse the keys of a database, its values, or both, in ascending or descending order. Transactions are also supported.

Installation
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With pip::

    pip install sophia

With the source package::

    python setup.py install

To uninstall the package, with pip::

    pip uninstall sophia

To uninstall from a source-install, just remove the files that were copied during the installation.