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Author	lemburg
Recipients	HubTou, koobs, lemburg, terry.reedy
Date	2022-03-27.11:54:07
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On 27.03.2022 09:56, Hubert Tournier wrote: > > The storage format used under Windows is completely different from the one used under Unix (or *BSD). The shelve module uses the dbm module underneath and this will pick its storage mechanism based on what's available on the platform: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/dbm/__init__.py It's likely that you'll get the dbm.dumb interface on Windows. On Linux, you typically have one of gdbm or the Berkley DB installed. dbm.whichdb() will tell you which type of dbm implementation your files are likely using. More on the differences of DBM style libs: http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/UNIX/apache/apacheRH7.0/local-copies/dbm.html Aside: You are probably better off using SQLite with a pickle layer to store arbitrary objects. This is much more mature than the dbm modules.

On 27.03.2022 09:56, Hubert Tournier wrote:
> 
> The storage format used under Windows is completely different from the one used under Unix (or *BSD).

The shelve module uses the dbm module underneath and this will pick
its storage mechanism based on what's available on the platform:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/dbm/__init__.py

It's likely that you'll get the dbm.dumb interface on Windows.
On Linux, you typically have one of gdbm or the Berkley DB installed.

dbm.whichdb() will tell you which type of dbm implementation your
files are likely using.

More on the differences of DBM style libs:
http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/UNIX/apache/apacheRH7.0/local-copies/dbm.html

Aside: You are probably better off using SQLite with a pickle
layer to store arbitrary objects. This is much more mature than
the dbm modules.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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