diff -r ffa851df0825 -r 2fb8b9db1c86 symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-2.6.1/Doc/library/whichdb.rst --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-2.6.1/Doc/library/whichdb.rst Fri Jul 31 15:01:17 2009 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +:mod:`whichdb` --- Guess which DBM module created a database +============================================================ + +.. module:: whichdb + :synopsis: Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. + +.. note:: + The :mod:`whichdb` module's only function has been put into the :mod:`dbm` + module in Python 3.0. The :term:`2to3` tool will automatically adapt imports + when converting your sources to 3.0. + + +The single function in this module attempts to guess which of the several simple +database modules available--\ :mod:`dbm`, :mod:`gdbm`, or :mod:`dbhash`\ +--should be used to open a given file. + + +.. function:: whichdb(filename) + + Returns one of the following values: ``None`` if the file can't be opened + because it's unreadable or doesn't exist; the empty string (``''``) if the + file's format can't be guessed; or a string containing the required module name, + such as ``'dbm'`` or ``'gdbm'``. +