[Python-3000] Is this really a SyntaxError?

2008-07-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Someone just wrote to the docs mailing list and reported that the itertools documentation for Py3k contains this recipe: def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None): args = [iter(iterable)] * n return zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue) It is currently a syntax error in 3k. There's also

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Removing bsddb module from py3k (was Re: No beta2 tonight)

2008-07-20 Thread Josiah Carlson
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Josiah Carlson wrote: > | On-disk key -> value dictionary. In every use of bsddb that I've seen > | (or done myself), that's been the extent of it's use. That's what I > | *

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Removing bsddb module from py3k (was Re: No beta2 tonight)

2008-07-20 Thread Charles Hixson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 10:24:56 am Josiah Carlson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > | On-disk key -> value dictionary. In every use of bsddb that I've seen > > | (or

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Removing bsddb module from py3k (was Re: No beta2 tonight)

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew McNamara
>But sqlite is transactional, can offer cursors, getrange, etc., etc. > >I'm still curious as to what deep features people are using in bsddb. It's not using "deep features", unless you define their on-disk layout as deep, but it does get used for things such as interactions with other systems - f