> Recently, friedric@rose.rsoc.rockwell.com (Robin Friedrich) said:
>> [...]
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 friedric 4096 Mar 29 17:14 Notebase.dir
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 friedric 16384 Mar 29 17:14 Notebase.pag
>> ...
>> >>> x = dbm.open('Notebase','r',0644)
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1
>> dbm.error: (2, 'No such file or directory')
> The only thing I can imagine is that there has been some error in
> building your dbm module. Even if the files were the wrong format
> (i.e. because they were built with a different, incompatible, version
> of dbm) the open should succeed (who knows what happens later, but the
> open should succeed).
There *are* implementations that are not only incompatible, but also use
different file extensions, like gdbm. Weren't there some mailings about
a month ago mentioning a python implementation with an alternate dbm
library?
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