>> Related but tangential question that we were discussing on the
>> pygr[0] mailing list -- what is the "official" word on a scalable
>> object store in Python? We've been using bsddb, but is there an
>> alternative? And what if bsddb is removed?
Brett> Beyond shelve there are no official plans to add a specific
Brett> object store.
Unless something has changed while I wasn't looking, shelve requires a
concrete module under the covers: bsddb, gdbm, ndbm, dumbdbm. It's just a
thin layer over one of them that makes it appear as if you can have keys
which aren't strings.
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