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Portable DBM implementation
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Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface.

A simple and slow database implemented entirely in Python.  This should
only be used when no other DBM-style database is available.

`open(filename[, flag[, mode]])'
     Open the database file FILENAME and return a corresponding object.
     The FLAG argument, used to control how the database is opened in
     the other DBM implementations, is ignored in `dumbdbm'; the
     database is always opened for update, and will be created if it
     does not exist.

     The optional MODE argument is ignored.

`error'
     Raised for errors not reported as `KeyError' errors.

See also:
     Note: anydbm Generic interface to `dbm'-style databases.  Note:
     whichdb Utility module used to determine the type of an existing
     database.