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If bssdb is broken, shelve should use anydbm and bsddb 
should be deprecated. Precedence: regexp.

ActivePython 2.2.0 Build 221 (ActiveState Corp.) based on
Python 2.2 (#28, Mar 28 2002, 12:10:20) [MSC 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> import shelve
>>> s = shelve.open('temp.db', 'c')
>>> s.dict
<bsddb.bsddb object at 0x008A2D48>

Python 2.2.1 (#1, Apr 30 2002, 17:02:05)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> import shelve
>>> s = shelve.open('temp.db', 'c')
>>> s.dict
<bsddb.bsddb object at 0x815a388>
>>>