The bsddb module is on the way out (deprecated in 2.6, gone in 3.0). That leaves Python without a cross-platform dbm module to sit underneath anydbm and shelve. I figured it might be useful to base something on top of sqlite3, which is cross-platform. The result is available in the Python sandbox:
http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/dbm_sqlite/ There are three files, a dbm.sqlite module, a test case and a modified bit of dbm documentation. For testing I'd like to install this in such a way that I can simply import dbm.sqlite but not overwrite the core install. I'd also not like to lose dbm.gdbm, etc during this testing phase. Is there some way to do this with distutils? Ideally, I'd like there to be a dbm package in site-packages but which falls back to the central installation when, say, dbm.gdbm isn't found. Thx, Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list