[Python-Dev] bsddb and sqlite (original) (raw)

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Mon Sep 8 02:34:03 CEST 2008 

>> Unfortunately this advice should have been taken several years
>> ago. The fact is that there are almost certainly Python users who
>> rely on the presence of the bsddb module for production work, and
>> simply removing it without deprecation is bound to upset those users.

Guido> Those users would first have to port their code to Python
Guido> 3.0. That task is a lot larger than dealing with a separate
Guido> download of bsddb.  It is not being removed from 2.6.

Perhaps 2.7 and 3.1 should have a conversion function at the dbm package level which will convert a database from one format to another, e.g.:

dbm.convert(srcdb, dstdb, dstfmt)

The format of srcdb should be discoverable from the file itself.

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