On 20-Jun-07, at 10:51 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:24:55 -0700, Guido van Rossum > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OTOH, pragmatically, people will generally use text strings for > db keys. >> >> I'm not sure how to decide this; perhaps we need to take it public. > > If it helps, after having used bsddb for a couple years and > developed a > non-trivial library on top of it, what Martin said seems most > sensible to > me.
As an extremely heavy user of bsddb, +1. Berkeley db is rather sensitive on how things are serialized (for instance, big-endian is much better for ints, performance-wise), so it is necessary to let the developer control this on a bytestring level. It is easy to write a wrapper on top of this to do the serialization automatically. -Mike _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
