[Python-3000] [stdlib-sig] PEP 3108 - stdlib reorg/cleanup

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Apr 29 22:44:30 CEST 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> > * UserList/UserString [done: 3.0]
> >
>
>  Note that these were updated and moved to the collections module in Py3.0.
>

Noted.

>
>
> > anydbm             dbm.tools [1]_
> > whichdb            dbm.tools [1]_
> >
>
>  Were there any better naming suggestions than dbm.tools?  The original
> names seem much more informative.
>

But way too much overhead for two modules that only contained one
useful function each. As Nick said, if you don't know DB stuff then I
don't see any loss of information.

If you can come up with a better name I am open to suggestions, but
the module merge will happen.

-Brett


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