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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2004-03-03 17:42:08 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2004-03-03 17:42:08 (GMT)
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* explain flags in doc strings
* reverse order of files on the command line in pickle2db.py to make it symmetrical with db2pickle.py in the two-arg case (src, then dest)
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- The db2pickle and pickle2db scripts can now dump/load gdbm files.
+- The file order on the command line of the pickle2db script was reversed.
+ It is now [ picklefile ] dbfile. This provides better symmetry with
+ db2pickle. The file arguments to both scripts are now source followed by
+ destination in situations where both files are given.
+
- The pydoc script will display a link to the module documentation for
modules determined to be part of the core distribution. The documentation
base directory defaults to http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/ but can