[Python-3000] [stdlib-sig] PEP 3108 - stdlib reorg/cleanup

[Joe Smith]

"Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote in message 
news:bbaeab100804291344g1ca48af9s3b5bbdacf516b8d7 at mail.gmail.com...
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>>
>> > * UserList/UserString [done: 3.0]
>> >
>>
>>  Note that these were updated and moved to the collections module in 
>> Py3.0.
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>
> Noted.
>
>>
>>
>> > anydbm             dbm.tools [1]_
>> > whichdb            dbm.tools [1]_
>> >
>>
>>  Were there any better naming suggestions than dbm.tools?  The original
>> names seem much more informative.
>>
>
> But way too much overhead for two modules that only contained one
> useful function each. As Nick said, if you don't know DB stuff then I
> don't see any loss of information.
>
> If you can come up with a better name I am open to suggestions, but
> the module merge will happen.

Is there a problem having the functions be just dbm.open() and 
dmb.whichdb()? As a user the latter one seems espeically logical, as it is a 
tool to help me select which "submodule" I want to use.