[stdlib-sig] Py3K bsddb name query

[Leonardo Santagada]

On 26/03/2008, at 19:33, Quentin Gallet-Gilles wrote:
>
>
> 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.


+1

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Leonardo Santagada