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 my Linux box in 3.4 and its only creating > a single file. Is this a 3.4 change or a Linux/dbm feature? > > I can't use Python on Windows at the moment so I can't check. > Does anyone know? I don't see anything in the module docs > about file formats differing by OS...
dbm in Python 3 or anydbm in Python 2 have logic to find the best available key-value store. On Windows you are more likely to end up with the last resort dbm.dumb (dumbdbm in py2) which uses three files (.dat, .dir, and .bak) but I don't think that's always the case. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
