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5. eendebakpt commented on Mar 17, 2025

   

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   On 3.13+ indeed the assignment db['www.yahoo.com'] = 4 does not throw error. The value is assigned and stored as a bytes object.

   The docs could be changed to something like "... can raise an exception, depending on the backend ...". But I am a little surprised the difference in backends is there in the first place. The documentation at https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html states the keys and values are stored as bytes, but not which kind of objects can be assigned.

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9. tpoliaw commented on Oct 1, 2025

   

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   But I am a little surprised the difference in backends is there in the first place

   Would it make more sense to make the behaviour consistent than to have 'if x, then the behaviour is y else z' in the docs?
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