Oh yeah for sure. I don't mean to convey any disdain for dbm itself or for having it rolled into the standard library. Reading and writing custom files for "con

Oh yeah for sure. I don't mean to convey any disdain for dbm itself or for having it rolled into the standard library. Reading and writing custom files for "convenience persistence" or configuration is one of those really common things that you don't usually need to actually do if you know about tools like this. I was just pointing out that the title and even the article seem to associate this system with python per se, rather than understanding it as python's interface to a common and pre-existing system.