Chapter 6. Managing Databases
The ability to store data in a manageable database dramatically increases the options regarding the types of applications that can be created by Python. The Python language has built-in modules, as well as add-on modules, that provide an extensive platform for the persistent storage of data in various database formats.
This chapter familiarizes you with phrases used to create generic DBM files for simple persistent storage of data, as well as some advanced concepts such as pickling data to files and shelves. Most basic database needs can be handled by the DBM, pickle, and shelve modules. The advantage of those modules is that they do not require a backend database server.
This chapter also covers connecting to and using ...
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