From: Skip Montanaro Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 20:40:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add a note about the undocumented bsddb185 module X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~831 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d9f45bc3f9b408cd1e80c341c9ca76b30b7c01b;p=python add a note about the undocumented bsddb185 module --- diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex index e66b2bbe8a..29cecec8f3 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ interpretation. \seemodule{dbhash}{DBM-style interface to the \module{bsddb}} \end{seealso} +\begin{notice} +Beginning in 2.3 some Unix versions of Python may have a \module{bsddb185} +module. This is present \emph{only} to allow backwards compatibility with +systems which ship with the old Berkeley DB 1.85 database library. The +\module{bsddb185} module should never be used directly in new code. +\end{notice} \subsection{Hash, BTree and Record Objects \label{bsddb-objects}} diff --git a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex index c1e3760584..09402b51c5 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex @@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ OS/2 platforms. --- Implementation on \module{os.path} on \POSIX. \end{description} +\item[\module{bsddb185}] +--- Backwards compatibility module for systems which still use the Berkeley +DB 1.85 module. It is normally only available on certain BSD Unix-based +systems. It should never be used directly. +\end{description} + \section{Multimedia}