[Mailman-Developers] Config.db

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@beopen.com
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:03:57 -0400 (EDT)


>>>>> "agemo" ==   <agemo@agemo.cc> writes:

    agemo> I'd like to read the file config.db with a perl-program,
    agemo> where I can read informations about the file format?

The config.db is a marshal[1] of a Python dictionary object.  The
marshal format, however, is undocumented on purpose.  The contents of
the dictionary are all the attribute/value pairs of the MailList
instance.  See MailList.Save() and MailList.Load() for details.

-Barry

[1] http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-marshal.html