On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 9:35:19 PM UTC, Ian wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:45 AM, clvanwall wrote: > > I have been a Perl programmer for 15+ years and decided to give Python a > > try. My platform is windows and I installed the latest 3.5.2. Next I > > decided to convert a perl program that uses a ndbm database since according > > to the doc on python, it should be able to work with it. Needless to say, > > I get: dbm.error: db type is dbm.ndbm, but the module is not available > > Searching on Python Bug Tracker shows _dbm missing back in 03-03-2012! > > That's a long time for a bug to be left open. > > Are you referring to http://bugs.python.org/issue14185? That's on > Linux platforms and it has to do with building Python, not using it. > > The dbm.ndbm documentation specifically says that it provides an > interface to the *Unix* ndbm library: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html#module-dbm.ndbm. I don't > think that this module is part of the standard Windows distribution of > Python. You might be able to find a third-party distribution of the > module using a Windows port of ndbm, or you could try to build it > yourself.
How about http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
