[Mailman-Users] Mailman + giant lists + the infinite weight of the cosmos

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:29 PM +0100 2005-02-08, Brad Knowles wrote:

>>   Mac OS X 10.3.7 seems to use Python 2.3 by default. The new db package
>>   sounds very promising. Will my Python pickles automatically use this
>>   new "db package" without requiring any work on my part?
>
>  	I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I would be very surprised if they
>  did.  I think you may need to do a little bit of programming to change
>  the pickle format, but I couldn't tell you what that would be.  I'll
>  leave others to answer this question.

	I've done a bit of checking, and Python 2.2 supported the "bsddb" 
database format.  It's not mentioned in 2nd edition of _Programming 
Python_, but pages 946-949 do cover programming with the AnyDBM 
module, and bsddb is a special case of that, according to 1st edition 
of _Python In a Nutshell_, pages 230-236.  Both books also cover the 
issue of pickling individual objects, and storing objects within 
databases, etc....

	There may have been some additional support for bsddb directly 
within pickling objects added for Python 2.3, but I have yet to find 
specific references for that in the documentation.  But you can start 
looking at <http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-bsddb.html> 
and <http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-pickle.html>, if you 
want to learn more.


	At this point, it may be best to continue this discussion on the 
mailman-developers list.

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