I should take a look at that. Could be simpler than Shelve and more flexible than Metakit. I don't really need transactions for many purposes, I can easily live with the checkpoint technique.
At PyPI recent updates there is the original article.
I'm curious what the Nessie hunters will come up with now for excuses as to why the scientists should have overlooked their monster.
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
Ralph Bollmann states: But whoever complains about too frequent elections is only insulting the voters. - well, that's the only thing our politicians still know how to do: insult voters. We're only allowed to choose what color tie we get dragged over the table with ... And for a politician, that's the dream, reducing the number of election dates: finally being able to cheat, corrupt, deceive, lie and mess things up for a few years without voters having a chance to object in between.
Hey, in 4 uncontrolled years you could easily drive a state bank, a state budget and the entire social system into ruin, and nobody can complain! Wonderful! And all the things you could siphon off on the side!
Actually, voters just get in the way of politics.
I found the original article at TAZ.