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54<H2><A NAME="SECTION0091310000000000000000"></A><A NAME="bsddb-objects"></A>
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567.13.1 Hash, BTree and Record Objects
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59<P>
60Once instantiated, hash, btree and record objects support
61the same methods as dictionaries. In addition, they support
62the methods listed below.
63
64<span class="versionnote">Changed in version 2.3.1:
65Added dictionary methods.</span>
66
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68<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
69 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2800' xml:id='l2h-2800' class="method">close</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
70 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
71<dd>
72Close the underlying file. The object can no longer be accessed. Since
73there is no open <tt class="method">open</tt> method for these objects, to open the file
74again a new <tt class="module">bsddb</tt> module open function must be called.
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78<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
79 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2801' xml:id='l2h-2801' class="method">keys</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
80 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
81<dd>
82Return the list of keys contained in the DB file. The order of the list is
83unspecified and should not be relied on. In particular, the order of the
84list returned is different for different file formats.
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88<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
89 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2802' xml:id='l2h-2802' class="method">has_key</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
90 <td><var>key</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
91<dd>
92Return <code>1</code> if the DB file contains the argument as a key.
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96<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
97 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2803' xml:id='l2h-2803' class="method">set_location</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
98 <td><var>key</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
99<dd>
100Set the cursor to the item indicated by <var>key</var> and return a tuple
101containing the key and its value. For binary tree databases (opened
102using <tt class="function">btopen()</tt>), if <var>key</var> does not actually exist in
103the database, the cursor will point to the next item in sorted order
104and return that key and value. For other databases,
105<tt class="exception">KeyError</tt> will be raised if <var>key</var> is not found in the
106database.
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111 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2804' xml:id='l2h-2804' class="method">first</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
112 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
113<dd>
114Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it. The order of
115keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
116This method raises <tt class="exception">bsddb.error</tt> if the database is empty.
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121 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2805' xml:id='l2h-2805' class="method">next</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
122 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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124Set the cursor to the next item in the DB file and return it. The order of
125keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
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130 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2806' xml:id='l2h-2806' class="method">previous</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
131 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
132<dd>
133Set the cursor to the previous item in the DB file and return it. The
134order of keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree
135databases. This is not supported on hashtable databases (those opened
136with <tt class="function">hashopen()</tt>).
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140<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
141 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2807' xml:id='l2h-2807' class="method">last</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
142 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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144Set the cursor to the last item in the DB file and return it. The
145order of keys in the file is unspecified. This is not supported on
146hashtable databases (those opened with <tt class="function">hashopen()</tt>).
147This method raises <tt class="exception">bsddb.error</tt> if the database is empty.
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152 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-2808' xml:id='l2h-2808' class="method">sync</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
153 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
154<dd>
155Synchronize the database on disk.
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158<P>
159Example:
160
161<P>
162<div class="verbatim"><pre>
163&gt;&gt;&gt; import bsddb
164&gt;&gt;&gt; db = bsddb.btopen('/tmp/spam.db', 'c')
165&gt;&gt;&gt; for i in range(10): db['%d'%i] = '%d'% (i*i)
166...
167&gt;&gt;&gt; db['3']
168'9'
169&gt;&gt;&gt; db.keys()
170['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']
171&gt;&gt;&gt; db.first()
172('0', '0')
173&gt;&gt;&gt; db.next()
174('1', '1')
175&gt;&gt;&gt; db.last()
176('9', '81')
177&gt;&gt;&gt; db.set_location('2')
178('2', '4')
179&gt;&gt;&gt; db.previous()
180('1', '1')
181&gt;&gt;&gt; for k, v in db.iteritems():
182... print k, v
1830 0
1841 1
1852 4
1863 9
1874 16
1885 25
1896 36
1907 49
1918 64
1929 81
193&gt;&gt;&gt; '8' in db
194True
195&gt;&gt;&gt; db.sync()
1960
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