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7.11.1 Database Objects
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The database objects returned by <tt class="function">open()</tt> provide the methods
common to all the DBM-style databases and mapping objects.  The following
methods are available in addition to the standard methods.

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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2789' xml:id='l2h-2789' class="method">first</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  It's possible to loop over every key/value pair in the database using
  this method   and the <tt class="method">next()</tt> method.  The traversal is ordered by
  the databases internal hash values, and won't be sorted by the key
  values.  This method returns the starting key.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2790' xml:id='l2h-2790' class="method">last</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Return the last key/value pair in a database traversal.  This may be used to
  begin a reverse-order traversal; see <tt class="method">previous()</tt>.
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  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Returns the key next key/value pair in a database traversal.  The
  following code prints every key in the database <code>db</code>, without
  having to create a list in memory that contains them all:

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print db.first()
for i in xrange(1, len(db)):
    print db.next()
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  Returns the previous key/value pair in a forward-traversal of the database.
  In conjunction with <tt class="method">last()</tt>, this may be used to implement
  a reverse-order traversal.
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  This method forces any unwritten data to be written to the disk.
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