[Python-3000] dbm package creation

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll handle the PEP 3108 dbm package if nobody else is already at it.
>

I know I have not started the work.

> Two questions though:
>
> * the whichdb() function returns strings that are module names.  These
>  names won't be importable anymore in 3k.  Should the return values
>  remain the same in 3k, or should whichdb() return the new names, and
>  if the latter, including "dbm." or not?
>

New names with the package name prepended.

Should probably change the API at some point to just return the module
to use instead of the name.

> * two of the previous modules are C modules, namely dbm and gdbm.  They
>  can't be easily moved into the package.  I expect the solution is to
>  create stub Python modules and rename the C modules with a leading
>  underscore? (It's already like this for bsd, except that the C module
>  name, bsddb, has no underscore.)
>

Yep. I don't know of any package in the stdlib that uses a extension
module in some other fashion.

-Brett