[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Feature Requests-520382 ] Update Shelve to be more dictionary like

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Feature Requests item #520382, was opened at 2002-02-20 03:39
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Category: Python Library
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: Update Shelve to be more dictionary like

Initial Comment:
It's great to be able to add persistence by replacing 
a dictionary declaration with a shelf; however, it is 
not as substitutable as it could be.

Most importantly, we should add __iter__ so that
'for k in d' works for shelves as well as dictionaries.

Also 
add  .items .iteritems .iterkeys .itervalues .popitem .
setdefault .update and .values

These methods could be added to increase 
substitutability without affecting existing code.

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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2002-11-14 07:58

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Please go ahead. I'll apply my minor quibbles once it's in
CVS. :-)

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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2002-11-14 01:44

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Yes.  DictMixin moved to UserDict.
Yes.  has_key() now uses try/except (much better).
Yes.  __contains__ aliased to has_key
Added news item and docs.
See new patch below.

If the design is acceptable, I'll move on to writing the
unittests.

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2002-11-13 23:12

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What's py-dev? I don't recall a discussion on DictMixin on
python-dev, so is it something different, maybe IRC?

Maybe DIctMixin can live in UserDict?

has_key() should not call keys(); it should try self[key]
and catch the KeyError.

__contains__ should just be an alias for has_key rather than
a wrapper.

But those are all details; I like the ideas here.

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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2002-11-13 21:29

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Here is a concept sketch patch for expanding the shelve 
interface.  The goal is to make it is easier to add 
persistence when an application was already developed 
using dictionaries as a base.

On a separate note, DictMixin is offered as a stand-alone 
class to make it easier to create classes with a full 
dictionary interface.  On py-dev, we concluded that 
DictMixin did not warrant its own module, so this would be 
a good place to expose the mixin class as an experimental 
feature while taking care of shelve at the same time.

If the concept sketch appeals to you, I'll add docs, 
unittests, and a news item.  DictMixin would be listed as 
experimental and potentially would not be visible in future 
versions of Python.



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