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| author | Marco Rougeth <marco@rougeth.com> | 2019-04-29 23:23:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <54418+brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-04-29 23:23:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 81c5a905951aaf46f292eb459c32649c0b74ef61 (patch) | |
| tree | 134df402ec716cc3e79dafc6a0ea1c8d80d8ffcb /Lib/dbm | |
| parent | 9bdd6d1c2a61e0a27dba063e9eccf70e295f73a4 (diff) | |
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bpo-36232: Improve error message on dbm.open() when the db doesn't exist (GH-12060)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/dbm/__init__.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/dbm/__init__.py b/Lib/dbm/__init__.py index 6831a84..f65da52 100644 --- a/Lib/dbm/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/dbm/__init__.py @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ def open(file, flag='r', mode=0o666): # file doesn't exist and the new flag was used so use default type mod = _defaultmod else: - raise error[0]("need 'c' or 'n' flag to open new db") + raise error[0]("db file doesn't exist; " + "use 'c' or 'n' flag to create a new db") elif result == "": # db type cannot be determined raise error[0]("db type could not be determined") |