Re: Database vs Data Structure?

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:30:33 -0700, erikcw wrote:
use some sort of data-structure (maybe
nested dictionaries or a custom class) and store the pickled
data-structure in a single row in the database (then unpickle the data
and query in memory).

Why would you want to do this? I don't see what you would hope to gain by
doing this, over just using a database.
.

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