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  • Anthony McDonald

    bsddb.btopen()

    PythonWin 2.3 (#46, Jul 29 2003, 18:54:32) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
    win32.
    Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (mhammond@skipp inet.com.au) - see
    'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
    >>> import os
    >>> import bsddb
    >>> os.chdir("c:/test")
    >>> my_data = bsddb.btopen("t esting", 'c')
    >>> for i in range(10):[/color][/color][/color]
    .... if i == 5:
    .... pass
    .... else:
    .... my_data['%d'%i] = '%d'% (i*i)
    ....[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
    >>> my_data.keys()[/color][/color][/color]
    ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '6', '7', '8', '9'][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
    >>> my_data.sync()[/color][/color][/color]

    Now heres where my problem is.

    The documentation explicitly states that a btopen database when asked to
    locate a key that doesn't exist in the dataset, will return the next sorted
    key from the dataset.

    So my_data.set_loc ation('5') should return as if I'd called
    my_data.set_loc ation('6')[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
    >>> my_data.set_loc ation('5')[/color][/color][/color]
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<interacti ve input>", line 1, in ?
    File "C:\Python23\li b\bsddb\__init_ _.py", line 117, in set_location
    return self.dbc.set(ke y)
    DBNotFoundError : (-30991, 'DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found')

    Okay maybe it has positioned the cursor, but is just raising the exception
    to politely tell me that I'm not pointing at the key I asked for. So
    my_data.previou s() will return the key/data pair for key "4".
    [color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
    >>> my_data.previou s()[/color][/color][/color]
    ('9', '81')

    Okay its pointing at the end of the database. Erm thats not as advertised.

    Okay whats broken? Is the documentation wrong? Is my version of Python
    wrong?, or do I need to drink some more coffee?

    TonyM


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