From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:06:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1532
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ea30f4d8c8fdcc2b392db3249c94fe38fcd403c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
index 385f558728b1..1af4bdf4bad3 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
@@ -104,13 +104,15 @@ keys in the file is unspecified.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{previous}{}
-Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it.  The order of 
-keys in the file is unspecified.
+Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it.  The
+order of keys in the file is unspecified.  This is not supported on
+hashtable databases (those opened with \function{hashopen()}).
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{last}{}
-Set the cursor to the last item in the DB file and return it.  The order of 
-keys in the file is unspecified.
+Set the cursor to the last item in the DB file and return it.  The
+order of keys in the file is unspecified.  This is not supported on
+hashtable databases (those opened with \function{hashopen()}).
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{sync}{}