From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:59:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that the flag and mode arguments to dumbdbm.open() are ignored.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.2c1~50
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2389c097095198dc452ca2fb72d6f26a6d80b502;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Document that the flag and mode arguments to dumbdbm.open() are ignored.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex b/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex
index 367daf6ed937..2718936feaf7 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libanydbm.tex
@@ -72,17 +72,13 @@ should only be used when no other DBM-style database is available.
 
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{open}{filename\optional{, flag\optional{, mode}}}
-Open the database file \var{filename} and return a corresponding object.
-The optional \var{flag} argument can be
-\code{'r'} to open an existing database for reading only,
-\code{'w'} to open an existing database for reading and writing,
-\code{'c'} to create the database if it doesn't exist, or
-\code{'n'}, which will always create a new empty database.  If not
-specified, the default value is \code{'r'}.
+Open the database file \var{filename} and return a corresponding
+object.  The \var{flag} argument, used to control how the database is
+opened in the other DBM implementations, is ignored in
+\module{dumbdbm}; the database is always opened for update, and will
+be created if it does not exist.
 
-The optional \var{mode} argument is the \UNIX{} mode of the file, used
-only when the database has to be created.  It defaults to octal
-\code{0666} (and will be modified by the prevailing umask).
+The optional \var{mode} argument is ignored.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{error}