[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 23 07:58:33 CEST 2007


> IMHO all of that is desirable in many situations but it is not strict.
> bytes:bytes or int:bytes (depending on the database type) are
> fundamentally all the C berkeleydb library knows.  Attaching meaning
> to the keys and values is up to the user.  I'm about to try a _bsddb.c
> that strictly enforces bytes as values for the underlying bsddb.db API
> provided by _bsddb in my sandbox under the assumption that being
> strict about bytes is desired at that level there.  I predict lots of
> Lib/bsddb/test/ edits.

I fixed it all a few weeks ago, in revisions r56754, r56840, r56890,
r56892, r56914. I predict you'll find that most of the edits are
already committed.

Regards,
Martin


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