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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-09-08 02:49:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-09-08 02:49:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 9a46cab6134eb8e575a54cd52d14eb2f679df718 (patch) | |
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remove some more bsddb references
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shelve.rst b/Doc/library/shelve.rst index 2dee026..1c35f47 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shelve.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shelve.rst @@ -55,15 +55,14 @@ Restrictions .. index:: module: dbm.ndbm module: dbm.gnu - module: bsddb -* The choice of which database package will be used (such as :mod:`dbm.ndbm`, - :mod:`dbm.gnu` or :mod:`bsddb`) depends on which interface is available. Therefore - it is not safe to open the database directly using :mod:`dbm`. The database is - also (unfortunately) subject to the limitations of :mod:`dbm`, if it is used --- +* The choice of which database package will be used (such as :mod:`dbm.ndbm` or + :mod:`dbm.gnu`) depends on which interface is available. Therefore it is not + safe to open the database directly using :mod:`dbm`. The database is also + (unfortunately) subject to the limitations of :mod:`dbm`, if it is used --- this means that (the pickled representation of) the objects stored in the - database should be fairly small, and in rare cases key collisions may cause the - database to refuse updates. + database should be fairly small, and in rare cases key collisions may cause + the database to refuse updates. * Depending on the implementation, closing a persistent dictionary may or may not be necessary to flush changes to disk. The :meth:`__del__` method of the @@ -155,9 +154,6 @@ object):: Module :mod:`dbm` Generic interface to ``dbm``-style databases. - Module :mod:`bsddb` - BSD ``db`` database interface. - Module :mod:`pickle` Object serialization used by :mod:`shelve`. |