On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:45 AM, 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.
Are you referring to http://bugs.python.org/issue14185? That's on Linux platforms and it has to do with building Python, not using it. The dbm.ndbm documentation specifically says that it provides an interface to the *Unix* ndbm library: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dbm.html#module-dbm.ndbm. I don't think that this module is part of the standard Windows distribution of Python. You might be able to find a third-party distribution of the module using a Windows port of ndbm, or you could try to build it yourself. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
