anydbm - a simple question

[Randall Hopper]

   Straight from the Effbot guide, but it fails when you try to add an element.
Any idea what it doesn't like?

  >>> import anydbm
  >>> db = anydbm.open( "database", "c" )
  >>> db[ "1" ] = "one"

  Traceback (innermost last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    File "/home/rhh/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/dumbdbm.py", line 111,\
      in __setitem__ 
      (pos, siz) = self._addval(val)
    File "/home/rhh/software/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/dumbdbm.py", line 87, \
      in _addval
      f.write('\0'*(npos-pos))
  TypeError: can't multiply sequence with non-int


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