Mitchell Model <m...@acm.org> added the comment: No, I mean dbm.open. The third paragraph of its documentation says "'c' to create the database if it doesn’t exist, or 'n', which will always create a new empty database". This could easily be read as opening the database just for writing, although come to think of it a write-only database doesn't make any sense. I guess I was just being literal/mechanical in my reading of it, trying to make sure it erased all doubt. If the previous flags hadn't been explicitly documented as "for reading only" and "for reading and writing" it wouldn't have occurred to me that 'c' and 'n' should also be documented as reading and writing. No problem if you think this is too trivial and unlikely a problem to bother correcting.
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