SyncDict

class SyncDict

Bases: UserDict

Class for keeping json-backed dict with locking for sync

__init__(filename, lock=True)

initialise empty ResultsDict :param filename: file to use for storage :param lock: set lock=False to avoid locking (use wisely)

Methods

__init__	initialise empty ResultsDict :param filename: file to use for storage :param lock: set lock=False to avoid locking (use wisely)
clear
copy
fromkeys
get
items
keys
load	restore results from file
pop	If key is not found, d is returned if given, otherwise KeyError is raised.
popitem	as a 2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.
save	dump contents to json file
setdefault
update	If E present and has a .keys() method, does: for k in E: D[k] = E[k] If E present and lacks .keys() method, does: for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v In either case, this is followed by: for k, v in F.items(): D[k] = v
values

load()

restore results from file

Returns:

populated ResultsDict

save()

dump contents to json file

Parameters:

filename – output file path