[Python-Dev] python/dist/src/Lib/bsddb __init__.py,1.5,1.6

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> I don't know what you mean here.  Do you mean Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X?
    >> I use bsddb all the time on Mac OS X.

    Raymond> Hmm, I'll have to fix the docs too.  They currently list bsddb
    Raymond> as being only for Unix and Windows.

For non-GUI stuff Mac OS X is more Unix than Macintosh. ;-)

    Raymond> Yes. Iterators and the rest of the mapping API (__iter__, pop,
    Raymond> popitem, iteritems, setdefault, etc).

    Raymond> Like dumbdbm and shelve, this is done by including
    Raymond> UserDict.DictMixin as a base class.

I say go for it unless there's a serious backward compatibility problem.  I
suspect the vast majority of the people who use bsddb do so through the
anydbm module, so if usage that way doesn't break you should be okay.

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