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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2014-06-10 21:16:00 +0300 |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2014-06-10 21:16:00 +0300 |
| commit | 6bf3686912b62cb0a11e3b06ecff1a9183cd8131 (patch) | |
| tree | ccd23a7af14a9738704d5ba0704b402828c090a1 /Doc/library/dbm.rst | |
| parent | 08319b3e8f4ca003888e038814d3796d7678b732 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-6bf3686912b62cb0a11e3b06ecff1a9183cd8131.tar.gz | |
Issue #18039: dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when the
flag has the value 'n'. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst index f5496d5b99..b0133d8405 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst @@ -316,13 +316,18 @@ The module defines the following: dumbdbm database is created, files with :file:`.dat` and :file:`.dir` extensions are created. - The optional *flag* argument is currently ignored; the database is always opened - for update, and will be created if it does not exist. + The optional *flag* argument supports only the semantics of ``'c'`` + and ``'n'`` values. Other values will default to database being always + opened for update, and will be created if it does not exist. The optional *mode* argument is the Unix mode of the file, used only when the database has to be created. It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified by the prevailing umask). + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + :func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value + ``'n'``. + In addition to the methods provided by the :class:`collections.abc.MutableMapping` class, :class:`dumbdbm` objects provide the following method: |