7.15.1 Dumbdbm Objects

In addition to the methods provided by the UserDict.DictMixin class, dumbdbm objects provide the following methods.

sync( )
Synchronize the on-disk directory and data files. This method is called by the sync method of Shelve objects.

See Also:

Module anydbm:
Generic interface to dbm-style databases.
Module dbm:
Similar interface to the DBM/NDBM library.
Module gdbm:
Similar interface to the GNU GDBM library.
Module shelve:
Persistence module which stores non-string data.
Module whichdb:
Utility module used to determine the type of an existing database.
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