Alan Gauld wrote:
> Has anyone noticed a change to the DBM file format or is it an OS
> specific thing? Last time I used dbm it was on a Windoze box with
> Python 3.3 and it generated sets of 3 files for each 'database'
> created. (I think this is what it did under v2 as well?)
>
> I just used it
On 16/10/15 01:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Python 2.5, under Linux:
dbm.open('foo', 'w')
creates two files:
foo.dir foo.pag
Likewise for Python 2.7.
Thanks Steven.
In Python 3.3 and 3.4, you need to pass the 'c' or 'n' flag, not 'w',
and only a single file is created: "foo".
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:26:28AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> Has anyone noticed a change to the DBM file format or is it an OS
> specific thing? Last time I used dbm it was on a Windoze box with
> Python 3.3 and it generated sets of 3 files for each 'database'
> created. (I think this is what it
Has anyone noticed a change to the DBM file format or is it an OS
specific thing? Last time I used dbm it was on a Windoze box with
Python 3.3 and it generated sets of 3 files for each 'database'
created. (I think this is what it did under v2 as well?)
I just used it on my Linux box in 3.4 and i
