bsddb: must bsddb write a file ?

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

> the bsddb: class (binary tree, hash-table,..)
> needs to write its data to a file:
> db = bsddb.btopen('filename','c');

Thanks for bringing this topic.

Question: shelve.open("some_file") creates that file if it doesnt exist.
I want to check IF the file exist, but this is troublesome since I dont
know what db the shelve uses (thus I dont know what file extension). How
can this be accomplished?


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