[Pythonmac-SIG] Shelve ... Denied!

[Israel C. Evans]

hello there friendly python people.

I'm  currently attempting to use the shelve module in a couple of cgi 
scripts and after having gone through and gotten nearly everything 
working on the command line, I'm running into brick walls inside my 
browser.

I'm using MacOS X 10.2.6 with a build of apache 2.0.4x with python 
2.3a2.

The error occurs when I try to open up a shelve. I'm not sure if it has 
to do with permissions since I've already made all involved cgi files 
and the shelve db executable and chmoded to 755.  I'm thinking it might 
have something to do with the flags I'm using to open up the shelve, 
but they are the only way I could figure out how to open them in the 
console.

here is the bit that python or maybe apache chokes on:
db = shelve.open('200305','c')

and this gives me this error (condensed due to the size of the cgitb 
traceback info I get).
error: (13, 'Permission denied')
        args = (13, 'Permission denied')


Does anyone have any clues as to why this might be happening? I would 
gratefully appreciate any help you might have to offer.

Thanks,

~Israel~