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<h1>12.7. <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">whichdb</span></tt> — Guess which DBM module created a database<a class="headerlink" href="#module-whichdb" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p class="last">The <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">whichdb</span></tt> module’s only function has been put into the <a title="(Unix) The standard "database" interface, based on ndbm." class="reference external" href="dbm.html#module-dbm"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a>
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<p>The single function in this module attempts to guess which of the several simple
database modules available–<a title="(Unix) The standard "database" interface, based on ndbm." class="reference external" href="dbm.html#module-dbm"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a>, <a title="(Unix) GNU's reinterpretation of dbm." class="reference external" href="gdbm.html#module-gdbm"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">gdbm</span></tt></a>, or <a title="DBM-style interface to the BSD database library." class="reference external" href="dbhash.html#module-dbhash"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbhash</span></tt></a>–should be used to open a given file.</p>
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