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The whichdb module contains one function, whichdb() . It can be used to examine an existing Home
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database file to determine which dbm library should be used to open it. It returns None if there is a
About problem opening the file, or the string name of the module to use to open the file. If it can open the
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file but cannot determine the library to use, it returns the empty string.
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import anydbm
import whichdb

db = anydbm.open('/tmp/example.db', 'n')
db['key'] = 'value'
db.close()

print whichdb.whichdb('/tmp/example.db')
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