STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
Ok, I reproduced the issue on macOS High-Sierra and gdbm 1.15. Creating a DB creates a file of 16 MiB. macbook:master haypo$ brew info gdbm gdbm: stable 1.15 (bottled) GNU database manager https://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/ /usr/local/Cellar/gdbm/1.15 (19 files, 569.8KB) Poured from bottle on 2018-06-19 at 13:48:35 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gdbm.rb ==> Options --with-libgdbm-compat Build libgdbm_compat, a compatibility layer which provides UNIX-like dbm and ndbm interfaces. and macbook:master haypo$ ./python.exe Python 3.8.0a0 (heads/master:22525de, Jun 19 2018, 13:56:57) [Clang 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import dbm.gnu >>> import os >>> dbm.gnu.open("x", "c").close() >>> os.path.getsize("x") 16777216 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33901> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
