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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/dbm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/dbm/__init__.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/dbm/__init__.py b/Lib/dbm/__init__.py index c224847..99c1637 100644 --- a/Lib/dbm/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/dbm/__init__.py @@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ def open(file, flag = 'r', mode = 0o666): if not _defaultmod: raise ImportError("no dbm clone found; tried %s" % _names) - # guess the type of an existing database - result = whichdb(file) + # guess the type of an existing database, if not creating a new one + result = whichdb(file) if 'n' not in flag else None if result is None: - # db doesn't exist + # db doesn't exist or 'n' flag was specified to create a new db if 'c' in flag or 'n' in flag: # file doesn't exist and the new flag was used so use default type mod = _defaultmod |