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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/whichdb.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/whichdb.py b/Lib/whichdb.py index 4dd4e3a..5806118 100644 --- a/Lib/whichdb.py +++ b/Lib/whichdb.py @@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ def whichdb(filename): except IOError: pass + # Check for dumbdbm next -- this has a .dir and and a .dat file + f = open(filename + ".dat", "rb") + f.close() + f = open(filename + ".dir", "rb") + try: + if f.read(1) in ["'", '"']: + return "dumbdbm" + finally: + f.close() + except IOError: + pass + # See if the file exists, return None if not try: f = open(filename, "rb") |