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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-05-06 20:42:10 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-05-06 20:42:10 (GMT)
commit02cd36580fadb710ac05f7bc1e637ad886b506e8 (patch)
treece0855383bd49177d1da20e1244faa7a719b3256
parent6d9f45bc3f9b408cd1e80c341c9ca76b30b7c01b (diff)
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detect old version 2 hash files and return "bsddb185" as the appropriate
module to load them
-rw-r--r--Lib/whichdb.py7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/whichdb.py b/Lib/whichdb.py
index cc95ed5..fed58e9 100644
--- a/Lib/whichdb.py
+++ b/Lib/whichdb.py
@@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ def whichdb(filename):
if magic == 0x13579ace:
return "gdbm"
- # Check for BSD hash
+ # Check for old Berkeley db hash file format v2
if magic in (0x00061561, 0x61150600):
- return "dbhash"
+ return "bsddb185"
- # BSD hash v2 has a 12-byte NULL pad in front of the file type
+ # Later versions of Berkeley db hash file have a 12-byte pad in
+ # front of the file type
try:
(magic,) = struct.unpack("=l", s16[-4:])
except struct.error: