From: Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:31:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added support to recognize Python's internal "dumbdbm" database.
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~690
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a4409c1b2e16fa2a4a6dbc93d67746dbbab4b5c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Added support to recognize Python's internal "dumbdbm" database.
This closes bug 200 on Jitterbug.
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diff --git a/Lib/whichdb.py b/Lib/whichdb.py
index 4dd4e3a37338..5806118fc9e5 100644
--- a/Lib/whichdb.py
+++ b/Lib/whichdb.py
@@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ def whichdb(filename):
     except IOError:
         pass
 
+    # Check for dumbdbm next -- this has a .dir and and a .dat file
+        f = open(filename + ".dat", "rb")
+        f.close()
+        f = open(filename + ".dir", "rb")
+        try:
+            if f.read(1) in ["'", '"']:
+                return "dumbdbm"
+        finally:
+            f.close()
+    except IOError:
+        pass
+
     # See if the file exists, return None if not
     try:
         f = open(filename, "rb")