Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-06 Thread Ian Kelly 
On Dec 6, 2016 4:04 PM,  wrote:

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


Well, that would be for dbm.gnu, not dbm.ndbm. And I don't see any
distribution of the Python module there in any case.
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Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-06 Thread breamoreboy 
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.
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Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-06 Thread Ian Kelly 
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.
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Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-06 Thread justin walters 
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 5:06 PM, clvanwall  wrote:

> will thid do?  John
>

Looks like you need to use dbm.ndbm.open() instead of just dbm.open().

See the docs here for more info:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html#module-dbm.ndbm
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Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-05 Thread clvanwall 
will thid do?  John


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python-list@python.org Subject: Re: When will they fix Python _dbm? 
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:45 AM, clvanwall <clvanw...@gmail.com> 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.
> John Van Walleghen
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
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Hi there,

Could you please post code that is giving you an error?
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Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-05 Thread justin walters 
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:45 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.
> John Van Walleghen
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
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>


Hi there,

Could you please post code that is giving you an error?
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Re: When will they fix Python _dbm?

2016-12-05 Thread Anton Mamaenko 
What is your operating system, environment, and Python build? 

dbm is just a module that might not have been included into your Python build. 
It's not a bug but a deliberate choice of the package maker. 

Regards,
   Anton

> On 5 Dec 2016, at 17:45, 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.  
> John Van Walleghen
> 
> 
> Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
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