[Python-Dev] bsddb and sqlite (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Sun Sep 7 21:01:21 CEST 2008
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:34:37AM -0700, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
You could probably have built the bsddb185 module and loaded your data from that and rewritten it using the new bsddb module.
I built bsddb185, loaded old data, exported it to... I don't remember now, but I clearly remember I stopped using bsddb.
The lesson for python: when that happens lets write the code to make the transition between formats trivial.
For me the lesson is different - do not include modules in the stdlib that relies on unstable 3rd party libraries. I consider bsddb unstable. sqlite is more stable, but PySQLite... there are many minor releases between Python releases; my humble opinion is it'd be better to have one external PySQLite module than two (PySQLite and sqlite3).
Oleg.
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