I don't know if this has been remedied in a more recent version than I've got on my box (Debian Stable), but it seems like it should work out of the box:
Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 28 2010, 10:01:07) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import dbm >>> with dbm.open("mydb", 'c') as d: ... d["hello"] = "world" ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: '_dbm.dbm' object has no attribute '__exit__' I'm guessing it's an easy fix? (or even already fixed) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list