Dynamic Web content and forms processing in Python

The first argument to the gdbm.open() method is the name of the database file. The second argument is a mode string. We use 'c' to open the file read/write, and create it if necessary. The 's' flag instructs gdbm to synchronize transactions to the disk right away.

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    def __init__ ( self ):
        '''Constructor for UserDatabase.
        '''
        self.__db  =  gdbm.open ( DB_NAME, 'cs' )