Python Bindings for BerkeleyDB 3.3 thru 4.5
2008-03: This project has moved! See The new pybsddb Python BerkeleyDB library website.The website, mailing list and subversion repository all reside at the new location linked to above. The links below may be out of date. -greg
Introduction The Berkeley DB access methods include B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length records, and Queues. Berkeley DB provides full transactional support, database recovery, online backups, multi-threaded and multi-process access, etc. The Python wrappers allow you to store Python string objects of any length, keyed either by strings or integers depending on the database access method. With the use of another module in the package standard shelve-like functionality is provided allowing you to store any picklable Python object!
History Development then returned full circle back to Robin Dunn working in behalf of Digital Creations to complete the SWIG-less wrapping of the DB 3.x API and to build a solid unit test suite. Having completed that, Robin is now busy with another project (wxPython) and Greg has returned as maintainer. This module is included in the standard python >= 2.3 distribution as the bsddb module. The only reason you should look here is for documentation or to get a more up to date version. The bsddb.db module aims to mirror much of the BerkeleyDB C/C++ API.
The Important Stuff
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