[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>  
> wrote:
>> To get the ball rolling, I have a candidate for discussion.
>>
>> Very late in the 3.0 process (after feature freeze), the bsddb code  
>> was
>> ripped out (good riddance).  This had the unfortunate side-effect of
>> crippling shelves which now fall back to using dumbdbm.
>>
>> I'm somewhat working on an alternate dbm based on sqlite3:
>>  http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576638/
>> It is a pure python module and probably will not be used directly,  
>> but shelves
>> will see an immediate benefit (especially for large shelves) in  
>> terms of speed
>> and space.
>>
>> On the one hand, it is an API change or new feature because people  
>> can
>> (if they choose) access the dbm directly.  OTOH, it is basically a
>> performance fix for shelves whose API won't change at all.  The  
>> part that is visible
>> and incompatible is that 3.0.1 shelves won't be readable by 3.0.0.
>
> That is too much for 3.0.1. It could affect external file formats
> which strikes me as a bad idea.
>
> Sounds like a good candidate for 3.1, which we should be expecting in
> 4-6 months I hope. Also you could try find shelve users (are there
> any?) and recommend they install this as a 3rd party package, with the
> expectation it'll be built into 3.1.

I concur.

Barry

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