What is your operating system, environment, and Python build?
dbm is just a module that might not have been included into your Python build.
It's not a bug but a deliberate choice of the package maker.
Regards,
Anton
> On 5 Dec 2016, at 17:45, clvanwall <[email protected]> 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.
> John Van Walleghen
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