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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-24 20:42:55 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-24 20:42:55 (GMT)
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SF patch #474590 -- RISC OS support
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-rw-r--r--Lib/whichdb.py13
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/whichdb.py b/Lib/whichdb.py
index 8687b71..8b31003 100644
--- a/Lib/whichdb.py
+++ b/Lib/whichdb.py
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
import os
-if os.sep==".":
- endsep = "/"
-else:
- endsep = "."
-
def whichdb(filename):
"""Guess which db package to use to open a db file.
@@ -24,9 +19,9 @@ def whichdb(filename):
# Check for dbm first -- this has a .pag and a .dir file
try:
- f = open(filename + endsep + "pag", "rb")
+ f = open(filename + os.extsep + "pag", "rb")
f.close()
- f = open(filename + endsep + "dir", "rb")
+ f = open(filename + os.extsep + "dir", "rb")
f.close()
return "dbm"
except IOError:
@@ -34,9 +29,9 @@ def whichdb(filename):
# Check for dumbdbm next -- this has a .dir and and a .dat file
try:
- f = open(filename + endsep + "dat", "rb")
+ f = open(filename + os.extsep + "dat", "rb")
f.close()
- f = open(filename + endsep + "dir", "rb")
+ f = open(filename + os.extsep + "dir", "rb")
try:
if f.read(1) in ["'", '"']:
return "dumbdbm"