The dbm Module

(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'