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In addition to the methods provided by the
<tt class=
"class">UserDict.DictMixin
</tt> class,
<tt class=
"class">dumbdbm
</tt> objects provide the following methods.
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Synchronize the on-disk directory and data files. This method is called by
the
<tt class=
"method">sync
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<tt class=
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