[Jython-users] whichdb indeed!

[John H. <jo...@ne...>]

All,
    The following script runs in python, but not jython:

import shelve
subd = { "hula":"hoop", "sevenof":9 }
d = shelve.open( "dictfile" )
d["hoop"] = "skirt"
d["polo"] = "pony"
d["subber"] = subd
d.close()
d = shelve.open( "dictfile" )
print d["subber"]

This is the output from the jython run:

jython.bat shelvetest.py
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "shelvetest.py", line 4, in ?
  File "e:\Jython\Lib\shelve.py", line 157, in open
  File "e:\Jython\Lib\shelve.py", line 147, in __init__
  File "e:\Jython\Lib\anydbm.py", line 71, in open
ImportError: no module named whichdb


whichdb.py is not in the the jython distribution so I borrowed the one
from python. That
eventually led to other problems (which I omit here). What is the best
strategy for getting
shelve to work?
Thanks (again)
John