Comment 5 for bug 118814

I decided to try db4.5_stat as well... It turn out this one works fine on non-existant directories.

% ldd /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/dbm.so (20:22/10322)
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libdb-4.4.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so (0xb7e14000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7dfd000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7cbb000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

suggests the dbm module in python is using libdb4.4 and this problem might just go away once the dbm module uses a later version of libdb but I admit I don't much about the policies behind that.