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 <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 TabĀ® A > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list