New submission from Alex Roper :
Hi,
I wrote a simple script (attached) to do some preprocessing of MediaWiki
XML dumps. When it has a 8 MB chunk ready to dump to disk, it forks, and
the child writes it out and (will) compress it, then exit. The main
thread continues as before. Note that the
Alex Roper added the comment:
I've just been using the sq_dict module, which is a drop-in replacement for
shelve written
using sqlite3. BDB is a pretty squirraly piece of software in my experience. It
may or may
not be stable on it's own, but its APIs are pretty poorly docu
Alex Roper added the comment:
Go ahead
"R. David Murray" wrote:
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>R. David Murray added the comment:
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>Also note that bsddb's version was bumped in 2.7, so this bug may indeed be
>out of date. Alex, if you can't reproduce it (or don't have any
