[spambayes-dev] A new and altogether different bsddb breakage

[Tim Peters]

[Kenny Pitt]
> I get the same results as Tim using the 2.3.2 final version: Python
> 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32
>
> In my 2.3.2 lib, the "return self.db[key]" line in __getitem__ is on
> line 116 of __init__.py, not line 86 as in Richie's traceback.  I
> could expect some changes between Python 2.3 and 2.3.2, but 30 lines
> seems a bit much between minor bugfix releases.  Is that possibly an
> indicator of a bsddb version mismatch?

It's more an indicator of bugs in 2.3's bsddb support.  __init__.py was at
rev 1.5 in the 2.3 release, and is at rev 1.12(!) today:

http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Lib/bsddb/__init__.py

I see that support for the iterator and mapping protocols wasn't added until
rev 1.6, which is why they don't work for Richie in 2.3 final.