Add a little more verbiage about the bsddb module/package change. It's
clear from recent discussions on c.l.py that people are a bit confused about the differences between the old bsddb, the new bssdb, the bsddb3/PyBSDDB package and changes to file formats. Tried to clarify the issues.
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have to edit \file{Modules/Setup} to enable it. Note that the new
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have to edit \file{Modules/Setup} to enable it. Note that the new
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\module{bsddb} package is intended to be compatible with the
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\module{bsddb} package is intended to be compatible with the
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old module, so be sure to file bugs if you discover any
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old module, so be sure to file bugs if you discover any
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incompatibilities.
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incompatibilities. When upgrading to Python 2.3, if you also change
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the underlying BerkeleyDB library, you will almost certainly have to
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convert your database files to the new version. You can do this
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fairly easily with the new scripts \file{db2pickle.py} and
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\file{pickle2db.py} which you will find in the distribution's
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Tools/scripts directory. If you've already been using the PyBSDDB
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package, importing it as \module{bsddb3}, you will have to change your
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\code{import} statements.
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\item The Distutils \class{Extension} class now supports
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\item The Distutils \class{Extension} class now supports
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an extra constructor argument named \var{depends} for listing
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an extra constructor argument named \var{depends} for listing
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