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

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Thu Sep 4 13:10:07 CEST 2008 

>> 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?

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

Unless something has changed while I wasn't looking, shelve requires a concrete module under the covers: bsddb, gdbm, ndbm, dumbdbm. It's just a thin layer over one of them that makes it appear as if you can have keys which aren't strings.

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