This was found by Guido AFAIK on p3yk (sic) branch.

Lib/bsddb/test/test_basics.py

@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ class BasicTransactionTestCase(BasicTestCase):
         for log in logs:
             if verbose:
                 print 'log file: ' + log
-        if db.version >= (4,2):
+        if db.version() >= (4,2):
             logs = self.env.log_archive(db.DB_ARCH_REMOVE)
             assert not logs
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ Library
 - Bug #1543303, patch #1543897: remove NUL padding from tarfiles.
 
 
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
+  number properly.
+
+
 Documentation
 -------------