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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2018-02-05 20:47:31 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-02-05 20:47:31 (GMT)
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bpo-32749: Make dbm.dumb databases more cosistent with other dbm databases. (#5497)
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+A :mod:`dbm.dumb` database opened with flags 'r' is now read-only.
+:func:`dbm.dumb.open` with flags 'r' and 'w' no longer creates a database if
+it does not exist.