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<span id="dbm-simple-database-interface"></span><h1>dbm – Simple database interface<a class="headerlink" href="#module-dbm" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Purpose:</th><td class="field-body">Provides an interface to the Unix (n)dbm library.</td>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-dbm" title="dbm: Simple database interface"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">dbm</span></tt></a> module provides an interface to one of the dbm
libraries, depending on how the module was configured during
compilation.</p>
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<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">library</span></tt> attribute identifies the library being used, by name.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">dbm</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">dbm</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">library</span>
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<p>Your results will depend on what library <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">configure</span></tt> was able to
find when the interpreter was built.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ python dbm_library.py
GNU gdbm</pre>
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<p>The <tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">open()</span></tt> function follows the same semantics as the
<a class="reference internal" href="../anydbm/index.html#module-anydbm" title="anydbm: anydbm provides a generic dictionary-like interface to DBM-style, string-keyed databases"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">anydbm</span></tt></a> module.</p>
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/library/dbm.html">dbm</a></dt>
<dd>The standard library documentation for this module.</dd>
<dt><a class="reference internal" href="../anydbm/index.html#module-anydbm" title="anydbm: anydbm provides a generic dictionary-like interface to DBM-style, string-keyed databases"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">anydbm</span></tt></a></dt>
<dd>The <a class="reference internal" href="../anydbm/index.html#module-anydbm" title="anydbm: anydbm provides a generic dictionary-like interface to DBM-style, string-keyed databases"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">anydbm</span></tt></a> module.</dd>
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