Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: >> I disagree that this is release-critical. I think it is desirable to >> say that the dbm modules support most of a dict-style interface, >> and I also think that it is factually correct to claim that they >> currently do. > > Supporting only __getitem__, __setitem__, __delitem__, __contains__ and > keys is already "most of a dict-style interface"?
It's also __len__... Indeed, I think that this is the major part of the dict interface. For a number of additional methods, it would be straight-forward to support them as well (such as get(), pop(), popitem(), setdefault(), update()). That they are missing should be considered as a regular bug/missing feature. However, it appears that nobody has complained about those missing features in all these years, so that they are missing can't be that serious. > However, for the dbm modules I would be in favor of only specifying the > four mentioned methods, as in the docstring of dbm/__init__.py, and not > claiming any more. I don't mind the documentation to explain precisely what is, as long as it continues to explain what could be. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6045> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
