PyDO suggestions/comments

First, the trivial: PyDO2 is awkward to type and involves both shift keys.  It 
would be a simple improvement to make the module name pydo2 and leave class 
names the same.

Section 8 of the manual should probably come earlier.

initAlias description should include where logging goes if verbose=True, and 
that you'll need to call log.setLogLevel(logging.DEBUG) and add a handler to 
see anything.  (Isn't that second Log redundant?  log.setLevel is plenty 
clear.)  (Would adding logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)) as 
a default handler make sense?)

It would be nice to have the first introduction to PyDO be a complete working 
example, complete with initAlias call and import statements, and without 
talking about overriding default behavior.  IOW, a "quickstart" section so 
someone can get into PyDO right away and worry about nondefault behavior if 
and when he needs to get to it.  Section 9 may be a bit long for this, or it 
might not.  But I don't think I'm unusual in wanting to see the example first, 
so I can skip to the manual sections that I think I need to know more about.

Could getUnique be renamed simply get for convenience?

Manual should describe commit()/autocommit.

Transaction-safety is iffy: with this table

create table bar(
     i serial primary key,
     j int
);

if I write Bar.new(), then exit w/o committing, then write b = Bar.new(); 
b.commit(), my new row has i=2 since apparently the sequence query wasn't 
really in the uncomitted transaction.

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/skunkweb login

doesn't work as near as I can tell.  I enter a blank password and wait... and 
wait...  and wait.  Never does login.  I notice berlios.de hosts your 
downloads; don't they provide svn?  Certainly python-hosting.com does...  CVS 
is like going back to the Dark Ages, even when it works. :)


I like PyDO.  Hopefully this will be construed as constructive. :)

-Jonathan


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