[stdlib-sig] Py3K bsddb name query

[Quentin Gallet-Gilles]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I notice that in PEP 3108 the dbm modules are going to be in package
> >  dbm:
> >
> >     New         Old
> >     ----------- --------------------------------------------
> >     dbm.tools   anydbm + whichdb
> >     dbm.db      db.hash (actually bsd db so presumably using
> >                 bsddb.hashopen() behind the scenes?)
> >     dbm.ndbm    dbm
> >     dbm.dumb    dumbdbm
> >     dbm.gnu     gdbm
> >
> >  This leaves bsddb as a separate package. As far as I can tell bsddb is
> >  not so different from the others. I presume (although the documentation
> >  for bsddbobject.keys() denies it) that btopen() gives lexicographical
> >  ordering and rnopen() give insertion order ordering by keys, whereas
> >  hashopen() is unordered like a dict and like the other dbms provided.
> >
> >  In any case the name dbm.db seems wrong to me (too generic when the
> >  others are specific to their dbm type), so at the least shouldn't
> dbm.db
> >  be renamed dbm.bsd?
> >
>
> Good point. Anyone object to that renaming?


+1 for dbm.bsd, it's more informative.


>
> >  If consistency were wanted, dbm.bsd.open() could be a wrapper for
> >  dbm.bsd.hashopen() but only with filenname, flag and mode arguments so
> >  as to match the other dbms, and with dbm.bsd.hashopen(),
> >  dbm.bsd.btopen() and dbm.bsd.rnopen() and the other bsddb-specific
> >  functions available in the module as usual?
> >
>
> Adding new functions is beyond the reorganization of the stdlib. But
> it could be considered as a separate idea.
>
> -Brett
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