On 2008-07-18 21:35, Charles Hixson wrote:
Invariably, when someone goes and removes a module, someone else is
going to complain, "but I used feature X, not having feature X will
break my code." We, as maintainers can then say, "if you cared,
maintain it." But I'm not sure that is the greatest thing to tell
people. I suspect that we may have to include some sort of
"work-alike" for 2.7 and if not 3.0, 3.1 . If I were to vote for a
work-alike, it would be based on sqlite. For one of the most common
use-cases (bsddb.btree), simple sqlite code can be written to do the
right thing. Recno is a little more tricky, but can also be done.
The bsddb hash may not be possible, because sqlite doesn't support
hashed indices :/.
Just an idea.
- Josiah
Were I to vote for "something" it would be a B+Tree in collections. One that
didn't impose a requirement that the key be a string (and not, e.g., an
integer or a float).
OTOH, I don't care enough to build it. (I've proven this to myself
repeatedly, as I've started to create such a thing, and then kludged a
different solution.)
If pybsddb is sufficient as work-around for the stdlib bsddb module
(or perhaps even better), then I don't see much of a problem removing
the module from the stdlib using a PEP 4 process.
Can't really say, since I've never used any of these myself...
for on-disk dictionaries, we use mxBeeBase:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxBeeBase/
For anything more complex, a SQL database.
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