(Optional) The dbm
module provides an interface to the
dbm
database handler (available on many Unix
platforms). This is shown in Example 10-6.
Example 10-6. Using the dbm Module
File: dbm-example-1.py import dbm db = dbm.open("dbm", "c") db["first"] = "bruce" db["second"] = "bruce" db["third"] = "bruce" db["fourth"] = "bruce" db["fifth"] = "michael" db["fifth"] = "bruce" # overwrite db.close() db = dbm.open("dbm", "r") for key in db.keys(): print repr(key), repr(db[key])'first' 'bruce'
'second' 'bruce'
'fourth' 'bruce'
'third' 'bruce'
'fifth' 'bruce'
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