Dan M wrote:
> I've been Googling like a mad fiend and flipping through my hard-copy
> Python books, but still haven't located the one little bit of info I need.
>
> I've put together a simple SMTP-after-IMAP script that gets the authorized
> IP info from the mail log (I know, it's not elegant but it works). All
> works fine up until I go to scan the database of added IP addresses to
> delete the old ones. The problem is, I don't know how to drop a record
> from an anydbm database!
>
> The database file in question is compatible with the database built using
> "makemap hash imapauth < imapauth" - in fact, I'm using makemap to check
> the file contents against what I'm expecting.
>
> I'm adding records with code such as:
> db = anydbm.open(accessDbPath, "w")
> db[ipAddress] = str(time.time())
>
> Now how can I go about deleting that record when it's too old?
>
(untested)
try
del db[ipAddress]
regards
Steve
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