[Python-Dev] Distutils confuses Berkeley DB and dbm?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> Would someone on Linux please try the following:
> 
>     import dbm
>     f = dbm.open("foo", "c")
>     f["1"] = "1"
>     f.close
> 
> then ask the file command what kind of file it is.  On my system it tells me
> the file is a Berkeley DB 1.85 hash file. 

On my SuSE 8.0 installation, using /usr/bin/python, it tells me

foo.dir: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian
foo.pag: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian

Regards,
Martin