shelve file name extention
Monu
monuindia at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 14:19:07 EDT 2008
On Sep 8, 1:47 pm, s... at pobox.com wrote:
> Monu> When I am using shelve on my local machine it generates the db
> Monu> file as given filename. But in another machine it's generating
> Monu> <filename>.dat and .dir. can anyone tell me how can I force sheve
> Monu> module to write the db in <filename>.dir and <filename>.dat,
> Monu> instead of <filename>? Do I have to install a specific version of
> Monu> the python?
>
> Shelve is just a thin layer on top of a concrete db file module. Sounds
> like on your two machines there are different underlying db file modules
> available. You're pretty much at the mercy of those modules as to file
> naming. All you are giving it when opening a shelve file is the prefix.
>
> Skip
Thanks Skip.
So Can't I choose which module to use. Is there any preferance on
which shelve chooses these modules?
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