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False. The output is shown in Figure 8 . The keys and the values were switched in the bottom panel of Figure 7 .
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Get and display values
b'Joe'b'39'
b'333.444.5555'b'married'
b'639'b'male'
Get and display keysb'name'
b'age'b'phone'
b'marital'b'cubicle'
b'gender'Attempt to pop and display two values
b'333.444.5555'no weight
Get and display keys and valuesDatabase length 5
(b'name', b'Joe')(b'age', b'39')
(b'marital', b'married')(b'cubicle', b'639')
(b'gender', b'male')Delete a key/value pair and display again
Database length 4(b'name', b'Joe')
(b'age', b'39')(b'marital', b'married')
(b'gender', b'male') |
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True.
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False. The output is shown in Figure 5 . The in operator searches for a match in the keys and does not search for a match in the values .
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Not in dumbDb |
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True.
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False. The code in Figure 1 produces an error by attempting to store a number as a value. The output (with some text deleted for brevity) is shown in Figure 2 .
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "1359-1930-11.py", line 11, in<module>dumbDb[b'aNumber'] = 1234...
raise TypeError("values must be bytes or strings")TypeError: values must be bytes or strings |
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True. See The Python Standard Library - 12.5. dbm - Interfaces to Unix "databases" .
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True as of 11/09/2014.
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True. See comments in sample code at The Python Standard Library - 12.5. dbm - Interfaces to Unix "databases" .
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False. The object returned by dbm.open supports the same basic functionality as dictionaries . Keys and their corresponding values can be stored, retrieved, and deleted. The in operator and the keys method are available, as well as get and setdefault .
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False. The function named dbm.open can be called to open an existing dbm database file or to create a new dbm database file.
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True.
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False. dbm is a generic interface to variants of the DBM databases - dbm.gnu or dbm.ndbm . If neither of these modules is installed, the slow-but-simple implementation in module dbm.dumb will be used.
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False. As of 11/09/2014, no such warning appears on the referenced webpage. Therefore, it might be concluded that even though shelve has features that are not available in dbm , dbm is the more secure of the two. As a result, this course will concentrate on dbm and ignore shelve .
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True as of 11/09/2014.
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True as of 11/09/2014.
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