t.p.d.Shelf(DirDBM) : class documentation

A directory with a DBM shelf interface.

This class presents a hash-like interface to a directory of small, flat files. Keys must be strings, but values can be any given object.

Method	__setitem__	shelf[foo] = bar Create or modify a textfile in this directory.
Method	__getitem__	dirdbm[foo] Get and unpickle the contents of a file in this directory.

Inherited from DirDBM:

Method	__init__
Method	__len__
Method	__delitem__	del dirdbm[foo] Delete a file in this directory.
Method	keys
Method	values
Method	items
Method	has_key
Method	setdefault
Method	get
Method	__contains__	key in dirdbm
Method	update	Add all the key/value pairs in dict to this dirdbm. Any conflicting keys will be overwritten with the values from dict.
Method	copyTo	Copy the contents of this dirdbm to the dirdbm at path.
Method	clear	Delete all key/value pairs in this dirdbm.
Method	close	Close this dbm: no-op, for dbm-style interface compliance.
Method	getModificationTime	Returns modification time of an entry.
Method	_encode	Encode a key so it can be used as a filename.
Method	_decode	Decode a filename to get the key.
Method	_readFile	Read in the contents of a file.
Method	_writeFile	Write data to a file.