Un, don't forget the other shelve problem....

[F. GEIGER]

Thanks for the hint, Tim, but I already read about that (in the Cookbook
IIRC).

Kind regards
Franz

"Tim Churches" <tchur at optushome.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:mailman.1041018275.14335.python-list at python.org...
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:12, F. GEIGER wrote:
> >
> > "Thomas Weholt" <2002 at weholt.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:HcrN9.3594$CG6.62010 at news4.e.nsc.no...
> > > If you find any solution to this, inform the group, as this would make
it
> > > possible for me to finally finish several projects depending on the
module
> > > using shelve.
> >
> > Using bsddb3 (version 3.3 on ActivePython 2.1.3) did it.
> >
> > Many thanks to all who contributed!
>
> Don't get stung by some other unexpected behaviour of shelve - see
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/102625.html
>
> Both problems really should be fixed by the Python maintainers, the
> first by upgrading to a more recent release of BsdDb in the standard
> distribution, the second by incorporating Alex Martelli's patch or
> similar. Shelve is discussed in all the introductory Python books, and
> its broken nature on popular platforms and its completely
> counter-intuitive behaviour may be enough to make many beginners
> incorrectly conclude that the rest of Python must be just as flaky.
>
> Tim C
>
>
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