Commit 29cf682b authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based

on comments from Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
parent 86119212
......@@ -95,18 +95,19 @@ Set the cursor to the item indicated by the key and return it.
\begin{methoddesc}{first}{}
Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it. The order of
keys in the file is unspecified.
keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{next}{}
Set the cursor to the next item in the DB file and return it. The order of
keys in the file is unspecified.
keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
\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. This is not supported on
hashtable databases (those opened with \function{hashopen()}).
order of keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree
databases. This is not supported on hashtable databases (those opened
with \function{hashopen()}).
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{last}{}
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