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📘 NAME

_dbm

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Open database for reading	_dbm.open('file', 'r')	Open an existing DBM database in read-only mode
Open database for writing	_dbm.open('file', 'w')	Open an existing DBM database for reading and writing
Create new database	_dbm.open('file', 'c')	Create a new DBM database (or open existing) with read/write access
Create new database (always truncate)	_dbm.open('file', 'n', 0o666)	Always create a new database, truncating if exists, with specified mode bits

📚 MODULE REFERENCE

https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/_dbm.html

⚠️ The following documentation is automatically generated from the Python source files. It may be incomplete, incorrect or include features that are considered implementation detail and may vary between Python implementations. When in doubt, consult the module reference at the location listed above.

📦 CLASSES

builtins.OSError(builtins.Exception)

• error

🔧 class error(builtins.OSError)

Method resolution order:

• error
• builtins.OSError
• builtins.Exception
• builtins.BaseException
• builtins.object

Data descriptors defined here:

• __weakref__ — list of weak references to the object (if defined)

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Methods inherited from builtins.OSError:

• __init__(self, /, *args, **kwargs) — Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
• __reduce__(...) — Helper for pickle.
• __str__(self, /) — Return str(self).

Static methods inherited from builtins.OSError:

• __new__(*args, **kwargs) from builtins.type — Create and return a new object. See help(type) for accurate signature.

Data descriptors inherited from builtins.OSError:

• characters_written
• errno — POSIX exception code
• filename — exception filename
• filename2 — second exception filename
• strerror — exception strerror

Methods inherited from builtins.BaseException:

• __delattr__(self, name, /) — Implement delattr(self, name).
• __getattribute__(self, name, /) — Return getattr(self, name).
• __repr__(self, /) — Return repr(self).
• __setattr__(self, name, value, /) — Implement setattr(self, name, value).
• __setstate__(...)
• with_traceback(...) — Exception.with_traceback(tb) -- set self.__traceback__ to tb and return self.

Data descriptors inherited from builtins.BaseException:

• __cause__ — exception cause
• __context__ — exception context
• __dict__
• __suppress_context__
• __traceback__
• args

🔧 FUNCTIONS

• open(filename, flags='r', mode=438, /) — Return a database object.
  Parameters:
  
  • filename — The filename to open.
  • flags — How to open the file. "r" for reading, "w" for writing, etc.
  • mode — If creating a new file, the mode bits for the new file (e.g. os.O_RDWR).

📊 DATA

library = 'Berkeley DB'

📁 FILE

/usr/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload/_dbm.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

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