newbie to shelves

[Doug Stanfield]

If that's all you're doing, its not enough.  I've had this problem when I
didn't explicitly close the shelve.  I've succesfully run on RH6.1 so don't
think its necessarily related to the distribution.

-Doug-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Curvey [mailto:ccurvey at bellatlantic.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 12:35 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: newbie to shelves
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a simple program:
> 
> import shelve
> dbase  = shelve.open("foo")
> 
> This runs fine the first time, and dutifully creates a file named
> "foo".  But anytime after that, I get an error "anydbm.error:  db type
> could not be determined"
> 
> The OS "file" command says that "foo" is a "Berkeley DB: 2.X 
> Hash/Little
> Endian (Version 5)".  I'm running on Red Hat 6.1.
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  The online docs, and the O'Reilly book
> aren't leading me anywhere.  I checked for a FAQ in this group, but
> didn't see one.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -Chris
> 
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