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Docs: promote the shelve module in the dbm docs introduction #126218

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Move seealso to a more prominent place in dbm
andresdelfino Nov 8, 2024
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Address https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/126218#discussion_r183…
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Merge branch 'main' into improve_dbm
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ slow-but-simple implementation in module :mod:`dbm.dumb` will be used. There
is a `third party interface <https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`_ to
the Oracle Berkeley DB.


.. seealso::

Module :mod:`shelve`
Persistence module that can store keys and values of types other than bytes.


.. exception:: error

A tuple containing the exceptions that can be raised by each of the supported
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# db is automatically closed when leaving the with statement.


.. seealso::

Module :mod:`shelve`
Persistence module which stores non-string data.


The individual submodules are described in the following sections.

:mod:`dbm.sqlite3` --- SQLite backend for dbm
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