[Python-Dev] Incorporating bsddb3

[Guido van Rossum]

> I have changes in my sandbox to incorporate bsddb3 into Python
> proper. This essentially is a copy of bsddb3 3.4.0, with the following
> modifications:
> - the extension module is called _bsddb (not bsddb3._db)
> - the package is called bsddb (not bsddb3)
> 
> Both test_bsddb and test_anydbm continue to work unmodified.

What happens if you don't have the software installed to make this
work, but you do have what it takes to make the *old* bsddb module
work?  I presume that one bites the dust now?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)