using the bsddb from Python (missing docs!)

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vincent wehren <vincent at visualtrans.de> wrote in message news:<cnk73p$113$1 at news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>...
> The bsddb3 package has become part of the standard library as of 2.3, I 
> believe. The docs for this "full blown" bsddb package are not (yet) part 
> of Python docs, but off-site on http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/bsddb3.html.

I am a bit confused about pybsddb; is pybsddb exactly the same as the module 
bsddb in Python 2.3+ ? Originally I thought that pybsddb had more stuff in it,
but now I tend to believe that they are the same. It is confusing since the 
docs are not in the standard distribution, so it is not clear if they are the 
same package (as optik and optparse, for instance) or not. Also, the docs 
of pybsddb are kind of terse: there is the API but there are no examples, so 
they are not very suitable for people without previous experience with the 
sleepycat database. This is the reason why I asked is somebody is aware of
some journal article, or tutorial, or other useful stuff.


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