[stdlib-sig] PEP 3108 - dbm

[Antoine]

>> If you have another package name I am open to hear it.
>
> Ideal would be data storage manager, since that's what they
> are all about, but "dsm" isn't intuitive enough. How about
> "datastore" ?

The point is that "*dbm" is the standard moniker for the underlying
libraries. They are called "ndbm", "gdbm", etc., and people wanting to use
them will look for them under that name, not under "datastore" or "dsm"
:-)