diff -r ffa851df0825 -r 2fb8b9db1c86 symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-2.6.1/Doc/library/persistence.rst --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-2.6.1/Doc/library/persistence.rst Fri Jul 31 15:01:17 2009 +0100 @@ -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