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| MissingPy.AnyDBM | | Portability | portable | | Stability | provisional | | Maintainer | jgoerzen@complete.org |
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| Description |
This module interfaces MissingH.AnyDBM to Python's anydbm.py.
Implementations for specific Python *dbm modules are also available.
See and import MissingH.AnyDBM to use these features.
Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org
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| Documentation |
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| data PyDBMOpenFlags |
| Flags used to open a dbm-type database | | Constructors | | DBM_ReadOnly | Open an existing database for read only | | DBM_ReadWrite | Open an existing database for reading and writing | | DBM_ReadWriteCreate | Open a database for reading and writing, creating if it doesn't exist | | DBM_ReadWriteNew | Open a database, creating it anew each time (deleting any existing data) |
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| openAnyDBM :: FilePath -> PyDBMOpenFlags -> IO PyDict |
| Opens a persistent storage database using the "best" storage mechanism
available to Python on this system. This will usually be one of the *dbm
services, though in rare circumstances, could be "dumbdbm", which is
only marginally better than MissingH.AnyDBM.StringDBM.
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| openSpecificDBM |
| :: String | Python module name to use | | -> FilePath | Path to database files | | -> PyDBMOpenFlags | Flags to use when opening | | -> IO PyDict | Result | Open a database using a specific module given by the first parameter. The
module supported are:
SECURITY NOTE: the string is not validated before being passed to Python.
Do not pass an arbitrary value to this function.
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| Produced by Haddock version 0.6 |
