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Data Persistence</a> &raquo;</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="module-shelve"> <span id="shelve-python-object-persistence"></span><h1>11.4. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shelve" title="shelve: Python object persistence."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">shelve</span></tt></a> &#8212; Python object persistence<a class="headerlink" href="#module-shelve" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p id="index-0"><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/shelve.py">Lib/shelve.py</a></p> <hr class="docutils" /> <p>A &#8220;shelf&#8221; is a persistent, dictionary-like object. The difference with &#8220;dbm&#8221; databases is that the values (not the keys!) in a shelf can be essentially arbitrary Python objects &#8212; anything that the <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">pickle</span></tt></a> module can handle. This includes most class instances, recursive data types, and objects containing lots of shared sub-objects. The keys are ordinary strings.</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="shelve.open"> <tt class="descclassname">shelve.</tt><tt class="descname">open</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em>, <em>flag='c'</em>, <em>protocol=None</em>, <em>writeback=False</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#shelve.open" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Open a persistent dictionary. The filename specified is the base filename for the underlying database. As a side-effect, an extension may be added to the filename and more than one file may be created. By default, the underlying database file is opened for reading and writing. The optional <em>flag</em> parameter has the same interpretation as the <em>flag</em> parameter of <a class="reference internal" href="anydbm.html#anydbm.open" title="anydbm.open"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">anydbm.open()</span></tt></a>.</p> <p>By default, version 0 pickles are used to serialize values. The version of the pickle protocol can be specified with the <em>protocol</em> parameter.</p> <p class="versionchanged"> <span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.3: </span>The <em>protocol</em> parameter was added.</p> <p>Because of Python semantics, a shelf cannot know when a mutable persistent-dictionary entry is modified. By default modified objects are written <em>only</em> when assigned to the shelf (see <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve-example"><em>Example</em></a>). If the optional <em>writeback</em> parameter is set to <em>True</em>, all entries accessed are also cached in memory, and written back on <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf.sync" title="shelve.Shelf.sync"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">sync()</span></tt></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf.close" title="shelve.Shelf.close"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">close()</span></tt></a>; this can make it handier to mutate mutable entries in the persistent dictionary, but, if many entries are accessed, it can consume vast amounts of memory for the cache, and it can make the close operation very slow since all accessed entries are written back (there is no way to determine which accessed entries are mutable, nor which ones were actually mutated).</p> <p>Like file objects, shelve objects should be closed explicitly to ensure that the persistent data is flushed to disk.</p> <p>Since the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shelve" title="shelve: Python object persistence."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">shelve</span></tt></a> module stores objects using <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">pickle</span></tt></a>, the same security precautions apply. Accordingly, you should avoid loading a shelf from an untrusted source.</p> </dd></dl> <p>Shelf objects support all methods supported by dictionaries. This eases the transition from dictionary based scripts to those requiring persistent storage.</p> <p>Two additional methods are supported:</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="shelve.Shelf.sync"> <tt class="descclassname">Shelf.</tt><tt class="descname">sync</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#shelve.Shelf.sync" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Write back all entries in the cache if the shelf was opened with <em>writeback</em> set to <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#True" title="True"><tt class="xref py py-const docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt></a>. Also empty the cache and synchronize the persistent dictionary on disk, if feasible. This is called automatically when the shelf is closed with <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf.close" title="shelve.Shelf.close"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">close()</span></tt></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="shelve.Shelf.close"> <tt class="descclassname">Shelf.</tt><tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#shelve.Shelf.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Synchronize and close the persistent <em>dict</em> object. Operations on a closed shelf will fail with a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><tt class="xref py py-exc docutils literal"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></tt></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576642/">Persistent dictionary recipe</a> with widely supported storage formats and having the speed of native dictionaries.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="restrictions"> <h2>11.4.1. Restrictions<a class="headerlink" href="#restrictions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <blockquote> <div></div></blockquote> <ul class="simple" id="index-1"> <li>The choice of which database package will be used (such as <a class="reference internal" href="dbm.html#module-dbm" title="dbm: The standard &quot;database&quot; interface, based on ndbm. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="gdbm.html#module-gdbm" title="gdbm: GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">gdbm</span></tt></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#module-bsddb" title="bsddb: Interface to Berkeley DB database library"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb</span></tt></a>) depends on which interface is available. Therefore it is not safe to open the database directly using <a class="reference internal" href="dbm.html#module-dbm" title="dbm: The standard &quot;database&quot; interface, based on ndbm. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a>. The database is also (unfortunately) subject to the limitations of <a class="reference internal" href="dbm.html#module-dbm" title="dbm: The standard &quot;database&quot; interface, based on ndbm. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a>, if it is used &#8212; this means that (the pickled representation of) the objects stored in the database should be fairly small, and in rare cases key collisions may cause the database to refuse updates.</li> <li>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shelve" title="shelve: Python object persistence."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">shelve</span></tt></a> module does not support <em>concurrent</em> read/write access to shelved objects. (Multiple simultaneous read accesses are safe.) When a program has a shelf open for writing, no other program should have it open for reading or writing. Unix file locking can be used to solve this, but this differs across Unix versions and requires knowledge about the database implementation used.</li> </ul> <dl class="class"> <dt id="shelve.Shelf"> <em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">shelve.</tt><tt class="descname">Shelf</tt><big>(</big><em>dict</em>, <em>protocol=None</em>, <em>writeback=False</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#shelve.Shelf" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="userdict.html#UserDict.DictMixin" title="UserDict.DictMixin"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">UserDict.DictMixin</span></tt></a> which stores pickled values in the <em>dict</em> object.</p> <p>By default, version 0 pickles are used to serialize values. The version of the pickle protocol can be specified with the <em>protocol</em> parameter. See the <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">pickle</span></tt></a> documentation for a discussion of the pickle protocols.</p> <p class="versionchanged"> <span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.3: </span>The <em>protocol</em> parameter was added.</p> <p>If the <em>writeback</em> parameter is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt>, the object will hold a cache of all entries accessed and write them back to the <em>dict</em> at sync and close times. This allows natural operations on mutable entries, but can consume much more memory and make sync and close take a long time.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="class"> <dt id="shelve.BsdDbShelf"> <em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">shelve.</tt><tt class="descname">BsdDbShelf</tt><big>(</big><em>dict</em>, <em>protocol=None</em>, <em>writeback=False</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#shelve.BsdDbShelf" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf" title="shelve.Shelf"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Shelf</span></tt></a> which exposes <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">first()</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">next()</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">previous()</span></tt>, <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">last()</span></tt> and <tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_location()</span></tt> which are available in the <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#module-bsddb" title="bsddb: Interface to Berkeley DB database library"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb</span></tt></a> module but not in other database modules. The <em>dict</em> object passed to the constructor must support those methods. This is generally accomplished by calling one of <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#bsddb.hashopen" title="bsddb.hashopen"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb.hashopen()</span></tt></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#bsddb.btopen" title="bsddb.btopen"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb.btopen()</span></tt></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#bsddb.rnopen" title="bsddb.rnopen"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb.rnopen()</span></tt></a>. The optional <em>protocol</em> and <em>writeback</em> parameters have the same interpretation as for the <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf" title="shelve.Shelf"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Shelf</span></tt></a> class.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="class"> <dt id="shelve.DbfilenameShelf"> <em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">shelve.</tt><tt class="descname">DbfilenameShelf</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em>, <em>flag='c'</em>, <em>protocol=None</em>, <em>writeback=False</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#shelve.DbfilenameShelf" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf" title="shelve.Shelf"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Shelf</span></tt></a> which accepts a <em>filename</em> instead of a dict-like object. The underlying file will be opened using <a class="reference internal" href="anydbm.html#anydbm.open" title="anydbm.open"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">anydbm.open()</span></tt></a>. By default, the file will be created and opened for both read and write. The optional <em>flag</em> parameter has the same interpretation as for the <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.open" title="shelve.open"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">open()</span></tt></a> function. The optional <em>protocol</em> and <em>writeback</em> parameters have the same interpretation as for the <a class="reference internal" href="#shelve.Shelf" title="shelve.Shelf"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Shelf</span></tt></a> class.</p> </dd></dl> </div> <div class="section" id="example"> <span id="shelve-example"></span><h2>11.4.2. Example<a class="headerlink" href="#example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>To summarize the interface (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">key</span></tt> is a string, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">data</span></tt> is an arbitrary object):</p> <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">shelve</span> <span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">shelve</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c"># open -- file may get suffix added by low-level</span> <span class="c"># library</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">data</span> <span class="c"># store data at key (overwrites old data if</span> <span class="c"># using an existing key)</span> <span class="n">data</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="c"># retrieve a COPY of data at key (raise KeyError if no</span> <span class="c"># such key)</span> <span class="k">del</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="c"># delete data stored at key (raises KeyError</span> <span class="c"># if no such key)</span> <span class="n">flag</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">has_key</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c"># true if the key exists</span> <span class="n">klist</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c"># a list of all existing keys (slow!)</span> <span class="c"># as d was opened WITHOUT writeback=True, beware:</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;xx&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c"># this works as expected, but...</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;xx&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c"># *this doesn&#39;t!* -- d[&#39;xx&#39;] is STILL range(4)!</span> <span class="c"># having opened d without writeback=True, you need to code carefully:</span> <span class="n">temp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;xx&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="c"># extracts the copy</span> <span class="n">temp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c"># mutates the copy</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;xx&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">temp</span> <span class="c"># stores the copy right back, to persist it</span> <span class="c"># or, d=shelve.open(filename,writeback=True) would let you just code</span> <span class="c"># d[&#39;xx&#39;].append(5) and have it work as expected, BUT it would also</span> <span class="c"># consume more memory and make the d.close() operation slower.</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">close</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c"># close it</span> </pre></div> </div> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="anydbm.html#module-anydbm" title="anydbm: Generic interface to DBM-style database modules."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">anydbm</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Generic interface to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt>-style databases.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#module-bsddb" title="bsddb: Interface to Berkeley DB database library"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>BSD <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">db</span></tt> database interface.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="dbhash.html#module-dbhash" title="dbhash: DBM-style interface to the BSD database library."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbhash</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Thin layer around the <a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#module-bsddb" title="bsddb: Interface to Berkeley DB database library"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">bsddb</span></tt></a> which provides an <a class="reference internal" href="dbhash.html#dbhash.open" title="dbhash.open"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">open()</span></tt></a> function like the other database modules.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="dbm.html#module-dbm" title="dbm: The standard &quot;database&quot; interface, based on ndbm. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Standard Unix database interface.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="dumbdbm.html#module-dumbdbm" title="dumbdbm: Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Portable implementation of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt> interface.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="gdbm.html#module-gdbm" title="gdbm: GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">gdbm</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>GNU database interface, based on the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt> interface.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">pickle</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Object serialization used by <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shelve" title="shelve: Python object persistence."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">shelve</span></tt></a>.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-cPickle" title="cPickle: Faster version of pickle, but not subclassable."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">cPickle</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>High-performance version of <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">pickle</span></tt></a>.</dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../contents.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">11.4. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shelve</span></tt> &#8212; Python object persistence</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#restrictions">11.4.1. 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