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dumbdbm – Portable DBM Implementation¶

Purpose:	Last-resort backend implementation for `anydbm`.
Available In:	1.4 and later

The dumbdbm module is a portable fallback implementation of the DBM API when no other implementations are available. No external dependencies are required to use dumbdbm, but it is slower than most other implementations.

It follows the semantics of the anydbm module.