Re: [SQLObject] dbm connection

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

Oleg Broytmann wrote:
>    How long ago people stopped to use dbm connections? The dbmconnection
> module seems to be broken beyond repair - the module forgets to import
> required modules (os, atexit), expects wrong parameters in methods, does
> all sorts of wrongdoing. I tried to fix it, but completely failed.
>    I'd like to drop it altogether. Especially in the light of work I am
> doing with SQL queries (DB API paramstyle parameters) - there is no a
> paramstyle for dbm cursors, there is no such thing as "dbm cursor". To
> make it work with SQL queries and parameters it need to be heaviliy
> modified after it would have been repaired... if it is possible at all.
>    Or should I try to repair it? Or ignore it for now?

Yes, we can just get rid of it.  I had moved it aside when I separated 
db backends into separate packages, but I hadn't tested it since -- he. 
  It shouldn't be too far from working, but it was just an experiment 
and there's other better embedded databases.

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