[Python-3000] dbm package creation

[Georg Brandl]

Brett Cannon schrieb:
> 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.

Okay, that's settled then!

Georg