From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:32:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1475
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29cf682b71e8b3724ea1b42e25bda5b2755729d8;p=python

Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based
on comments from Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
index 1af4bdf4ba..cd0dc07880 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
@@ -95,18 +95,19 @@ Set the cursor to the item indicated by the key and return it.
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{first}{}
 Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it.  The order of 
-keys in the file is unspecified.
+keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{next}{}
 Set the cursor to the next item in the DB file and return it.  The order of 
-keys in the file is unspecified.
+keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{previous}{}
 Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it.  The
-order of keys in the file is unspecified.  This is not supported on
-hashtable databases (those opened with \function{hashopen()}).
+order of keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree
+databases.  This is not supported on hashtable databases (those opened
+with \function{hashopen()}).
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{last}{}