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Missleading example of value validation for dbm since 3.13 #131323

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Missleading example of value validation for dbm since 3.13#131323
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3.13bugs and security fixes3.14bugs and security fixes3.15new features, bugs and security fixesdocsDocumentation in the Doc dirtype-bugAn unexpected behavior, bug, or error
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opened on Mar 16, 2025

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cpython/Doc/library/dbm.rst

Lines 132 to 134 in 9558d22

# Storing a non-string key or value will raise an exception (most
# likely a TypeError).
db['www.yahoo.com'] = 4

Is not correct since sqlite is default backend. int will be silently stored and those who rely on dbm to validate the value are in trouble.

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