Shelve-problems

[Thomas Weholt]

Hi,

I try to do something like :

>>>import shelve
>>>db = shelve.open('2')
>>> db['1'] = 'test'

And quit python, restart it and this happens when I try to read the data
back in :

>>> import shelve
>>> db = shelve.open('2')
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/shelve.py", line 152, in open
    return DbfilenameShelf(filename, flag)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/shelve.py", line 142, in __init__
    Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag))
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/anydbm.py", line 83, in open
    raise error, "db type could not be determined"
anydbm.error: db type could not be determined
>>> 

Why?!

I am using Linux Suse 6.2. Could I ( my Linux distro.) be missing
something??

Thomas Weholt