[Pythonmac-SIG] dbm problems

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:13:34 +0100


At 8:10 PM -0400 01-08-2000, Gordon Worley wrote:
>BTW, what is the if 0 part for?  In fact, if 0 seems like it would
>always be false, so the import gdbm part would never be run.

It's only a hint for the modulefinder used by BuildApplication (&
MacFreeze). It makes sure gdbm gets included (it doesn't do any flow
analusis, it simply scans for import statements.

Just