[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:58:33AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> > 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

Yeah you did the keys (good!).  I just checked in a change to require
values to also by bytes.  Maybe that goes so far as to be inconvenient?
Its accurate.  All retreived data comes back as bytes.

Greg