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DiskDict — Python dictionaries stored on disk
Published by Mike Staszel on December 5, 2016
development python

This weekend while running a rather large Python job, I ran into a memory error. It turned out that a dictionary I was populating could potentially become too big to fit into RAM. This is where DiskDict saved me some time.

https://github.com/AWNystrom/DiskDict/

It’s definitely not the best way to solve an issue, but in this case I was working with a limited system where rewriting the surrounding code would have been intrusive. Plus, the job didn’t have time constraints, so DiskDict was a decent workaround.

Wanted to share because it proved useful to me!

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