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| author | Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org> | 2024-02-14 18:03:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-02-14 18:03:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 49e8fdc1df41b6547fb3255f9e3a44dfb3b81fe0 (patch) | |
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Docs: spell out sentence about ndbm/gdbm file formats (#115470)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst index b4f83d4..227b55c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst @@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ the Oracle Berkeley DB. The Unix file access mode of the file (default: octal ``0o666``), used only when the database has to be created. -.. |incompat_note| replace:: - The file formats created by :mod:`dbm.gnu` and :mod:`dbm.ndbm` are incompatible - and can not be used interchangeably. - .. function:: open(file, flag='r', mode=0o666) Open a database and return the corresponding database object. @@ -205,7 +201,10 @@ The :mod:`dbm.gnu` module provides an interface to the :abbr:`GDBM (GNU dbm)` library, similar to the :mod:`dbm.ndbm` module, but with additional functionality like crash tolerance. -.. note:: |incompat_note| +.. note:: + + The file formats created by :mod:`dbm.gnu` and :mod:`dbm.ndbm` are incompatible + and can not be used interchangeably. .. exception:: error @@ -314,7 +313,10 @@ The :mod:`dbm.ndbm` module provides an interface to the This module can be used with the "classic" NDBM interface or the :abbr:`GDBM (GNU dbm)` compatibility interface. -.. note:: |incompat_note| +.. note:: + + The file formats created by :mod:`dbm.gnu` and :mod:`dbm.ndbm` are incompatible + and can not be used interchangeably. .. warning:: |