The recent updates to bsddb (r63207, r63210 and r63218) needs to
forward-ported to the py3k branch.

At first glance, here is the things that needs to be done in the test suite:

  - Change the import:

      from test_all import ...

    into a relative import:

      from .test_all import ...

  - Replace code incompatible with 3.0, such as changing
    ``dict.has_key(key)`` to ``key in dict``.

  - Change str literals to bytes literals where appropriate.

  - Optional: change code like ``type([])`` or ``type(())`` to 
    respectively ``list`` and ``tuple``.

  - Change print statements into print() calls.

  - Change ``x != None`` to ``x is not None``.

In the modules:

  - Change PyInt__* to PyLong_*.
  - Update the PyTypeObject declaration:

       statichere PyTypeObject DB_Type = {
           PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL)
           0,                  /*ob_size*/
           "DB",               /*tp_name*/
           sizeof(DBObject),   /*tp_basicsize*/
           ...

    to:

       static PyTypeObject DB_Type = {
           PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
           "DB",               /*tp_name*/
           sizeof(DBObject),   /*tp_basicsize*/
           ...

  - Update module init declaration:

       DL_EXPORT(void) init_bsddb(void)
       {
          ...

    to:

      PyMODINIT_FUNC init_bsddb(void)
      {
          ...

  - Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS.
  - Change PyString_* calls to PyUnicode_* where appropriate.

There probably other things that I missed, but that should give you a
good start.

I believe Jesus wants to do this is such a way that bsddb.h and _bsddb.c
are a single code base with #ifdef's that compiles on 2.x and 3.x at once.

Yes. My idea is to port the python code as-is, using "2to3", and update
the C code with conditional compilation, to keep a single codebase.

I'm having issues with the compatibility. In particular, my code has the
following line:

"""
staticforward PyTypeObject DB_Type, DBCursor_Type, DBEnv_Type,
DBTxn_Type, DBLock_Type;
"""

Compiling this code fails with the following error (when compiling
against Python 3.0):

"""
Modules/_bsddb.c:241: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__' before 'PyTypeObject'
"""

Compiling the same code against Python 2.x, works.

Ideas welcomed :).

FWIW, I bumped the version of Berkeley DB being used on Windows from 
4.4.20 to 4.7.25 in r64555 (trunk).  I blocked this from being merged 
to py3k.  This block should be removed once bsddb has been updated.

bsddb is officially dropped in Python 3.0. Too bad :(. I close this issue.

bsddb supports Python 3.0 via a separate project, downloadable from PYPI.