sqlitedict

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/sqlitedict
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/sqlitedict
• License: Apache-2.0
• Distribution policy: public-summary-plus-license-aware-excerpts
• Public mirror status: partial excerpt
• Content hash: d8794e4047a5ea815434c2e3be96ffc9051644b8ab14c60ab9ef5f0cacf04bcf
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: Minimal implementations
• Corpus source note: 2026-05-15-karpathy-public-corpus
• Project taxonomy: karpathy-project-taxonomy
• Idea map: karpathy-idea-map
• Topic hub: karpathy-public-work

Summary

=============================================================== sqlitedict -- persistent dict , backed-up by SQLite and pickle =============================================================== Travis License .. Travis image:: https://travis-ci.org/RaRe-Technologies/sqlitedict.svg?branch=master .. Downloads image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/sqlitedict.svg .. License image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/sqlitedict.svg .. Travis: https://travis-ci.org/RaRe-Technologies/sqlitedict .. Downloads: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlitedict .. License: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlitedict A lightweight wrapper ar…

What This Teaches

• How a complex idea can be compressed into a minimal but working implementation.
• Useful as a reference style for serious small systems rather than decorative demos.

Why It Matters

This matters as part of Karpathy’s broader pattern: compress hard technical systems into readable, inspectable, working artifacts.

Repository Snapshot

• Full name: karpathy/sqlitedict
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: f5c57f1f833e251b8ffe2e63642d4923b52646cd
• Stars at crawl: 44
• Forks at crawl: 7
• File count: 16
• README path: README.rst
• License path: LICENSE.md
• Created: 2020-05-26T01:17:16Z
• Updated: 2026-05-03T21:41:29Z
• Pushed: 2020-02-21T16:15:36Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 9
• tests: 7

File Extension Profile

• .py: 9
• .gitignore: 1
• .in: 1
• .md: 1
• .rst: 1
• .txt: 1
• .yml: 1
• [none]: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• .gitignore
• .travis.yml
• CHANGELOG.txt
• LICENSE.md
• Makefile
• MANIFEST.in
• README.rst
• setup.py
• sqlitedict.py
• tests/accessories.py
• tests/autocommit.py
• tests/test_autocommit.py
• tests/test_core.py
• tests/test_named_db.py
• tests/test_onimport.py
• tests/test_temp_db.py

Public Handling Notes

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