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. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.