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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2004-03-03 17:42:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2004-03-03 17:42:08 (GMT) |
| commit | e2b61e019089d02f7da8c883c8836540f53a9a57 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e89b84e5ce905fbfe69336e8713eaffd620d6f4 /Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py | |
| parent | 47db16580a1c3ccf15703dfcfc86a64f35b9435c (diff) | |
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* explain flags in doc strings
* reverse order of files on the command line in pickle2db.py to make it
symmetrical with db2pickle.py in the two-arg case (src, then dest)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py b/Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py index 7b0857c..795011b 100644 --- a/Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py +++ b/Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py @@ -4,10 +4,18 @@ Synopsis: %(prog)s [-h|-g|-b|-r|-a] dbfile [ picklefile ] Convert the database file given on the command line to a pickle -representation. The optional flags indicate the type of the database (hash, -btree, recno). The default is hash. If a pickle file is named it is opened -for write access (deleting any existing data). If no pickle file is named, -the pickle output is written to standard output. +representation. The optional flags indicate the type of the database: + + -a - open using anydbm + -b - open as bsddb btree file + -d - open as dbm file + -g - open as gdbm file + -h - open as bsddb hash file + -r - open as bsddb recno file + +The default is hash. If a pickle file is named it is opened for write +access (deleting any existing data). If no pickle file is named, the pickle +output is written to standard output. """ |