[Python-Dev] [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0

[Michele Simionato]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> The release
> candidate seems to be the wrong time to
> yank this out (in part because of the surprise
> factor) and in part because I think the change
> silently affects shelve performance so that the
> impact may be significantly negative but not
> readily apparent.

I do not use bsddb directly, but I use shelve which on Linux usually
takes advantage of bsddb. Does removing bsddb mean that
I will not be able to read shelve files written with Python 2.5
with Python 3.0? That would be quite disturbing to me.