It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Actually, I think most of the necessary logic will live in setup.py.
    >> Search for "bsddb".  That stanza will have to be modified to build
    >> the older module if a recent enough version of Berkeley DB isn't
    >> found.  Note that if the bsddb module is built instead of the _bsddb
    >> module the Lib/bsddb package directory shouldn't be installed.

    Martin> That is incorrect. If bsddb185 is build, it is called
    Martin> bsddb185. It is a module entirely different from the bsddb
    Martin> package, or the _bsddb module.

Do you envision the install operation automatically adding 

    import bsddb185 as bsddb

in either sitecustomize.py or site.py?  If not, then the solution is still
not perfect for Nick.

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