[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-584409 ] add way to detect bsddb version

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Bugs item #584409, was opened at 2002-07-21 07:29
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: paul rubin (phr)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: add way to detect bsddb version

Initial Comment:
The bsddb module docs say that some Python
configurations use Berkeley db 1.85
and others use the incompatible 2.0.  Maybe by now
there are later versions as well.  There's no way
listed for a Python script to know which version of
bsddb is running underneath!  That's not so great,
since the versions don't interoperate and don't support
the same operations.

Proposed fix: please add a new function to the module,
bsddb.db_version().  This would
return a constant string like "1.85" or "2.0", built at
Python configuration time.


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