Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I think this isn't quite right.
Ideally a fix should maintain several important properties: (1) Be able to read databases written by Python 2.x. (1a) Write databases readable by Python 2.x. (2) Use the same mapping between str and bytes as the other *dbm libraries have. (2a) Return the same value for keys() as the other *dbm libraries (except for order). I think (2) means that we should use UTF-8 to convert str keys to bytes, but (1) means we should use Latin-1 to convert keys to str *upon writing the index*. This will also satisfy (1a). The keys maintained internally should be kept in bytes to satsfy (2a). PS. I noticed the dbm module still returns bytearrays for keys and values. Is there a bug open to change those to bytes? _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3799> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
