From 6d9141ed766f4003f39362937dc397e9f734c7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Erlend E. Aasland" <erlend@python.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:47:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-100414: Make dbm.sqlite3 the preferred dbm backend
 (#115447)

---
 Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst                                           | 2 +-
 Lib/dbm/__init__.py                                             | 2 +-
 .../next/Library/2024-01-23-13-03-22.gh-issue-100414.5kTdU5.rst | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
index a265bf1734c..b14fb4e5392 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ dbm
   from the database.
   (Contributed by Donghee Na in :gh:`107122`.)
 
-* Add new :mod:`dbm.sqlite3` backend.
+* Add new :mod:`dbm.sqlite3` backend, and make it the default :mod:`!dbm` backend.
   (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Erlend E. Aasland in :gh:`100414`.)
 
 doctest
diff --git a/Lib/dbm/__init__.py b/Lib/dbm/__init__.py
index 97c0bb1c9ca..4fdbc54e74c 100644
--- a/Lib/dbm/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/dbm/__init__.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import sys
 class error(Exception):
     pass
 
-_names = ['dbm.gnu', 'dbm.ndbm', 'dbm.sqlite3', 'dbm.dumb']
+_names = ['dbm.sqlite3', 'dbm.gnu', 'dbm.ndbm', 'dbm.dumb']
 _defaultmod = None
 _modules = {}
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-01-23-13-03-22.gh-issue-100414.5kTdU5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-01-23-13-03-22.gh-issue-100414.5kTdU5.rst
index ffcb926a8d5..0f3b3bdd7c6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-01-23-13-03-22.gh-issue-100414.5kTdU5.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-01-23-13-03-22.gh-issue-100414.5kTdU5.rst
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Add :mod:`dbm.sqlite3` as a backend to :mod:`dbm`.
+Add :mod:`dbm.sqlite3` as a backend to :mod:`dbm`, and make it the new default :mod:`!dbm` backend.
 Patch by Raymond Hettinger and Erlend E. Aasland.