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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/dbm.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst index 6926ca6..67c0025 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst @@ -61,10 +61,15 @@ the Oracle Berkeley DB. modified by the prevailing umask). -The object returned by :func:`.open` supports most of the same functionality as +The object returned by :func:`.open` supports the same basic functionality as dictionaries; keys and their corresponding values can be stored, retrieved, and deleted, and the :keyword:`in` operator and the :meth:`keys` method are -available. Key and values are always stored as bytes. This means that when +available, as well as :meth:`get` and :meth:`setdefault`. + +.. versionchanged:: 3.2 + :meth:`get` and :meth:`setdefault` are now available in all database modules. + +Key and values are always stored as bytes. This means that when strings are used they are implicitly converted to the default encoding before being stored. |