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minor documentation cleanup. mention the bsddb.db interface explicitly by name.

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Gregory P. Smith 2006-06-15 09:23:52 +00:00
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@ -13,23 +13,29 @@ using the appropriate open call. Bsddb objects behave generally like
dictionaries. Keys and values must be strings, however, so to use
other objects as keys or to store other kinds of objects the user must
serialize them somehow, typically using \function{marshal.dumps()} or
\function{pickle.dumps}.
\function{pickle.dumps()}.
The \module{bsddb} module requires a Berkeley DB library version from
3.3 thru 4.4.
\begin{seealso}
\seeurl{http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/}{Website with documentation
for the new python Berkeley DB interface that closely mirrors the
sleepycat object oriented interface provided in Berkeley DB 3 and 4.}
\seeurl{http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/}{The website with documentation
for the \module{bsddb.db} python Berkeley DB interface that closely mirrors
the Sleepycat object oriented interface provided in Berkeley DB 3 and 4.}
\seeurl{http://www.sleepycat.com/}{Sleepycat Software produces the
modern Berkeley DB library.}
Berkeley DB library.}
\end{seealso}
A more modern DB, DBEnv and DBSequence object interface is available in the
\module{bsddb.db} module which closely matches the Sleepycat Berkeley DB C API
documented at the above URLs. Additional features provided by the
\module{bsddb.db} API include fine tuning, transactions, logging, and
multiprocess concurrent database access.
The following is a description of the legacy \module{bsddb} interface
compatible with the old python bsddb module. For details about the more
modern Db and DbEnv object oriented interface see the above mentioned
pybsddb URL.
compatible with the old python bsddb module. Starting in Python 2.5 this
interface should be safe for multithreaded access. The \module{bsddb.db}
API is recommended for threading users as it provides better control.
The \module{bsddb} module defines the following functions that create
objects that access the appropriate type of Berkeley DB file. The