Database Abstraction/Wrapper Layer
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- **NOTE from Chris Webber:** I asked Elrond to explain why he put
- ASCENDING and DESCENDING in db/util.py when we could just import from
- pymongo. Read beow for why, but note that nobody is actually doing
- this and there's no proof that we'll ever support more than
- MongoDB... it would be a huge amount of work to do so.
-
- If you really want to prove that possible, jump on IRC and talk to
- us about making such a branch. In the meanwhile, it doesn't hurt to
- have things as they are... if it ever makes it hard for us to
- actually do things, we might revisit or remove this. But for more
- information, read below.
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This submodule is for most of the db specific stuff.
There are two main ideas here: