Python does something similarly annoying with shelve files. I will never use that module again. > The shelve module is implemented on top of the dbm module. T

Python does something similarly annoying with shelve files. I will never use that module again. > The shelve module is implemented on top of the dbm module. This module acts as a facade for 3(* different specific DBM implementations, and it will pick the first module available when creating a new database, in the following order: > It is this range of choices that makes shelve files appear to grow extra extensions on different platforms. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16171833/why-does-the-shelve-module-in-python-sometimes-create-files-with-different-exten https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16171833/why-does-the-sh...