+def GenDBM(accounts, File, key):
+ Fdb = None
+ OldMask = os.umask(0022)
+ fn = os.path.join(File).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+ try:
+ posix.remove(fn)
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ try:
+ Fdb = dbm.open(fn, "c")
+ os.umask(OldMask)
+
+ # Write out the email address for each user
+ for a in accounts:
+ if not key in a: continue
+ value = a[key]
+ user = a['uid']
+ Fdb[user] = value
+
+ Fdb.close()
+ except:
+ # python-dbm names the files Fdb.db.db so we want to them to be Fdb.db
+ os.remove(File + ".db")
+ raise
+ # python-dbm names the files Fdb.db.db so we want to them to be Fdb.db
+ os.rename (File + ".db", File)
+