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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2003-07-21 15:30:15 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2003-07-21 15:30:15 (GMT) |
commit | 6c4970995ad2e4624a0a7bbf820a3cfdb26c5e52 (patch) | |
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Merge the old dumbdbm documetation into the new docs that have been added.
Make some module references hyperlinks.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex b/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex index eef4d03..17228dd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex @@ -57,40 +57,3 @@ strings. \seemodule{whichdb}{Utility module used to determine the type of an existing database.} \end{seealso} - - -\section{\module{dumbdbm} --- - Portable DBM implementation} - -\declaremodule{standard}{dumbdbm} -\modulesynopsis{Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface.} - - -A simple and slow database implemented entirely in Python. This -should only be used when no other DBM-style database is available. - - -\begin{funcdesc}{open}{filename\optional{, flag\optional{, mode}}} -Open the database file \var{filename} and return a corresponding -object. The \var{flag} argument, used to control how the database is -opened in the other DBM implementations, is ignored in -\module{dumbdbm}; the database is always opened for update, and will -be created if it does not exist. - -The optional \var{mode} argument is the \UNIX{} mode of the file, used -only when the database has to be created. It defaults to octal -\code{0666} (and will be modified by the prevailing umask). -\versionchanged[The \var{mode} argument was ignored in earlier - versions]{2.2} -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{excdesc}{error} -Raised for errors not reported as \exception{KeyError} errors. -\end{excdesc} - - -\begin{seealso} - \seemodule{anydbm}{Generic interface to \code{dbm}-style databases.} - \seemodule{whichdb}{Utility module used to determine the type of an - existing database.} -\end{seealso} |