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This is a potentially useful project but I could never use it for fear of "FuckItDB" appearing in an exception call trace that a client might see.

Names don't have to mean anything, but certain names are still unacceptable.

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According to this commit, the name was changed to butterdb about three months ago.

https://github.com/Widdershin/butterdb/commit/6a73c9199d53f5...

Digging on PyPI, I found the new package named butterdb. The version is bumped from .13 to .14, though that might just be the name change. In any case, it might be a good idea to change the submission to reflect the new name and the new package.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/butterdb/0.1.4

We changed the title and URL to the new name.

Any chance we could add a single character flag/prefix to titles on the front and search pages to indicate post titles which have been changed?

> for fear of "FuckItDB" appearing in an exception call trace that a client might see.

Just wrap it with FuckIt.py (previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858855 ) "to make sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not"

Based on the "don't use this for anything important" note, I think that's probably intentional. If someone spends the time to build this into something production-ready, they can change the name, too.

I actually changed the name from fuckitdb to butterdb in response to valid criticisms that alleged the name excluded people.

I originally intended this library to be a joke library, hence the "don't use this for anything important". I think I will remove that bit and just improve any issues people run into.

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