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<span id="dumbdbm-portable-dbm-implementation"></span><h1>11.12. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-dumbdbm" title="dumbdbm: Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></code></a> — Portable DBM implementation<a class="headerlink" href="#module-dumbdbm" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-dumbdbm" title="dumbdbm: Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></code></a> module has been renamed to <code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dbm.dumb</span></code> in Python 3.
The <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-2to3"><span class="xref std std-term">2to3</span></a> tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your
sources to Python 3.</p>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-dumbdbm" title="dumbdbm: Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></code></a> module is intended as a last resort fallback for the
<a class="reference internal" href="anydbm.html#module-anydbm" title="anydbm: Generic interface to DBM-style database modules."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">anydbm</span></code></a> module when no more robust module is available. The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-dumbdbm" title="dumbdbm: Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></code></a>
module is not written for speed and is not nearly as heavily used as the other
database modules.</p>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-dumbdbm" title="dumbdbm: Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></code></a> module provides a persistent dictionary-like interface which
is written entirely in Python. Unlike other modules such as <a class="reference internal" href="gdbm.html#module-gdbm" title="gdbm: GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. (Unix)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gdbm</span></code></a> and
<a class="reference internal" href="bsddb.html#module-bsddb" title="bsddb: Interface to Berkeley DB database library"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bsddb</span></code></a>, no external library is required. As with other persistent
mappings, the keys and values must always be strings.</p>
<p>The module defines the following:</p>
<dl class="exception">
<dt id="dumbdbm.error">
<em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">dumbdbm.</code><code class="descname">error</code><a class="headerlink" href="#dumbdbm.error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Raised on dumbdbm-specific errors, such as I/O errors. <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.KeyError" title="exceptions.KeyError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KeyError</span></code></a> is
raised for general mapping errors like specifying an incorrect key.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="dumbdbm.open">
<code class="descclassname">dumbdbm.</code><code class="descname">open</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>flag</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>mode</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#dumbdbm.open" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Open a dumbdbm database and return a dumbdbm object. The <em>filename</em> argument is
the basename of the database file (without any specific extensions). When a
dumbdbm database is created, files with <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.dat</span></code> and <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.dir</span></code> extensions
are created.</p>
<p>The optional <em>flag</em> argument is currently ignored; the database is always opened
for update, and will be created if it does not exist.</p>
<p>The optional <em>mode</em> argument is the Unix mode of the file, used only when the
database has to be created. It defaults to octal <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0666</span></code> (and will be modified
by the prevailing umask).</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.2: </span>The <em>mode</em> argument was ignored in earlier versions.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<p>In addition to the dictionary-like methods, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdm</span></code> objects
provide the following method:</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="dumbdbm.close">
<code class="descclassname">dumbdbm.</code><code class="descname">close</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#dumbdbm.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Close the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdm</span></code> database.</p>
</dd></dl>
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<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="anydbm.html#module-anydbm" title="anydbm: Generic interface to DBM-style database modules."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">anydbm</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Generic interface to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dbm</span></code>-style databases.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="dbm.html#module-dbm" title="dbm: The standard "database" interface, based on ndbm. (Unix)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dbm</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Similar interface to the DBM/NDBM library.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="gdbm.html#module-gdbm" title="gdbm: GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. (Unix)"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gdbm</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Similar interface to the GNU GDBM library.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="shelve.html#module-shelve" title="shelve: Python object persistence."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shelve</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Persistence module which stores non-string data.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="whichdb.html#module-whichdb" title="whichdb: Guess which DBM-style module created a given database."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">whichdb</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Utility module used to determine the type of an existing database.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<div class="section" id="dumbdbm-objects">
<span id="id1"></span><h2>11.12.1. Dumbdbm Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#dumbdbm-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In addition to the methods provided by the <a class="reference internal" href="userdict.html#UserDict.DictMixin" title="UserDict.DictMixin"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UserDict.DictMixin</span></code></a> class,
<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dumbdbm</span></code> objects provide the following methods.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="dumbdbm.dumbdbm.sync">
<code class="descclassname">dumbdbm.</code><code class="descname">sync</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#dumbdbm.dumbdbm.sync" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Synchronize the on-disk directory and data files. This method is called by the
<a class="reference internal" href="#dumbdbm.dumbdbm.sync" title="dumbdbm.dumbdbm.sync"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sync()</span></code></a> method of <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Shelve</span></code> objects.</p>
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