sci@gentoo.org Gentoo Science Project python@gentoo.org Python Like shelve, a PickleShareDB object acts like a normal dictionary. Unlike shelve, many processes can access the database simultaneously. Changing a value in database is immediately visible to other processes accessing the same database. Concurrency is possible because the values are stored in separate files. Hence the "database" is a directory where all files are governed by PickleShare. pickleshare ipython/pickleshare