[Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0) (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Sep 4 05:45:20 CEST 2008

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:41:32PM -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote: -> I think this should be deferred to Py3.1. -> -> This decision was not widely discussed and -> I think it likely that some users will -> be surprised and dismayed. The release -> candidate seems to be the wrong time to -> yank this out (in part because of the surprise -> factor) and in part because I think the change -> silently affects shelve performance so that the -> impact may be significantly negative but not -> readily apparent.

Related but tangential question that we were discussing on the pygr[0] mailing list -- what is the "official" word on a scalable object store in Python? We've been using bsddb, but is there an alternative? And what if bsddb is removed?

Beyond shelve there are no official plans to add a specific object store.

-Brett

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