Method _addkey

Lib/dbm/dumb.py:183–187

(self, key, pos_and_siz_pair)

    # at offset pos and with length siz.  Add an index record to
    # the in-memory index dict, and append one to the directory file.
    def _addkey(self, key, pos_and_siz_pair):
        self._index[key] = pos_and_siz_pair
        with _io.open(self._dirfile, 'a', encoding="Latin-1") as f:
            self._chmod(self._dirfile)
            f.write("%r, %r\n" % (key.decode("Latin-1"), pos_and_siz_pair))

    def __setitem__(self, key, val):
        if self._readonly: