Mailman 3 April 1999 - Doc-SIG

Need someone to try some rarely used bsddb methods
by Skip Montanaro April 17, 1999

April 17, 1999

I noticed today that there is apparently still no documentation for the bsddb module, so I started working on some. While trying out the bsddb hash object methods, I noticed a few didn't seem to work. I tested this under Red Hat Linux 5.0 (PC hardware) and Python 1.5.1. I used Berkeley DB v 2.3.16 with the backwards compatibility interface, so that might be causing my problems. I see no functional changes in the 1.5.2 version of the bsddb module, so I doubt it's causing problems. If you have the time, please try executing the following Python statements and let me know what methods, if any, generate tracebacks. I will need to know what version of Python you used, what version of Berkeley DB you used, and for completeness, what OS platform and version you used. (If you use version 2 of the DB library you will have to modify the bsddbmodule.c source to include db_185.h instead of db.h.) import bsddb db = bsddb.hashopen("/tmp/spam.db", "c") for i in range(10): db["%d"%i] = "%d"% (i*i) db.keys() db.first() db.next() db.last() db.set_location('2') db.previous() db.sync() The btree object (the one I use regularly) didn't have any problems. The keys returned with the record object seem to be screwed up: >>> db = bsddb.rnopen("/tmp/spamr.db", "c") >>> for i in range(10): db["%d"%i] = "%d"% (i*i) ... >>> db.keys() ['0\000\000\000', '1\000\000\000', '2\000\000\000', '3\000\000\000', '4\000\000\000', '5\000\000\000', '6\000\000\000', '7\000\000\000', '8\000\000\000', '9\000\000\000'] Can anyone confirm this rather odd behavior as well? Private replies appreciated. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro (skip(a)mojam.com, 518-372-5583) Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/ Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/

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Current list of undocumented modules
by Fred L. Drake April 15, 1999

April 15, 1999

Here's my current list of undocumented modules. Between the Python modules listed and the unlisted C modules, there are about 100 undocumented modules which are not obsolete. Some may be safely ignored (*path come to mind), but many of these should be included in the library reference. If anyone would like to shorten the list, this would be a really good time to send new sections along! <standard> CGIHTTPServer SimpleHTTPServer asynchat asyncore audiodev bdb cmp cmpcache codeop colorsys dircache dircmp dospath dump find fpformat grep htmlentitydefs ihooks knee linecache macpath macurl2path mutex ntpath nturl2path packmail pipes posixpath pty reconvert regex_syntax rlcompleter sched statcache statvfs sunau sunaudio toaiff tty turtle tzparse util wave lib-tk Canvas Dialog FileDialog FixTk ScrolledText SimpleDialog Tkconstants Tkdnd Tkinter tkColorChooser tkCommonDialog tkFileDialog tkFont tkMessageBox tkSimpleDialog plat-* CD CDIO CDROM CL CL_old ERRNO FCNTL FILE GET GLWS IN IOCTL SOCKET STROPTS SUNAUDIODEV SV WAIT cddb cdplayer panel panelparser readcd torgb -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake(a)acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives

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Re: Doc-SIG digest, Vol 1 #59 - 1 msg
by Joe Van Andel April 6, 1999

April 6, 1999

Reply-To: vanandel(a)ucar.edu Cc: Fcc: -------- I fail to see absolutely any connection between Python Documentation and an import/export commodities fair. The odds of anyone subscribed to 'doc-sig(a)python.org' wanting to know about this are incredibly low. Please be more careful about where you post announcements in the future. Thanks! Joe VanAndel Internet: vanandel(a)ucar.edu National Center for Web: http://www.atd.ucar.edu/~vanandel/home.html Atmospheric Research

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fair
by klw April 5, 1999

April 5, 1999

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