[Python-Dev] python/dist/src/Lib/bsddb init.py,1.5,1.6 (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Fri Sep 12 15:55:44 EDT 2003 

>> I don't know what you mean here.  Do you mean Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X?
>> I use bsddb all the time on Mac OS X.

Raymond> Hmm, I'll have to fix the docs too.  They currently list bsddb
Raymond> as being only for Unix and Windows.

For non-GUI stuff Mac OS X is more Unix than Macintosh. ;-)

Raymond> Yes. Iterators and the rest of the mapping API (__iter__, pop,
Raymond> popitem, iteritems, setdefault, etc).

Raymond> Like dumbdbm and shelve, this is done by including
Raymond> UserDict.DictMixin as a base class.

I say go for it unless there's a serious backward compatibility problem. I suspect the vast majority of the people who use bsddb do so through the anydbm module, so if usage that way doesn't break you should be okay.

Skip

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