still having trouble gettting the ndbm module to correctly make an ndbm instead of bsd db. this fixture setup seems to work, tho bogglingly. It creates 2 files, one ndbm & the other bsd db. requires further investigation

tests/test_dump-anydbm.py

@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ def make_gdbm_test_db(request):
 	request.addfinalizer(delete_test_dumbdbm)
 	return db_name
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope = "function")
+def make_ndbm_test_db(request):
+	db_name = "test_ndbm"
+	print "creating", db_name
+	open(db_name+".db", 'a').close()
+	test_db = ndbm.open(db_name+".db", "n")
+	test_db['very first key'] = 'very first value'
+	test_db['second key'] = 'second value'
+	test_db.close()
+	def delete_test_ndbm():
+		print "deleting", db_name
+		# os.remove(db_name+".db")
+
+	request.addfinalizer(delete_test_ndbm)
+	return db_name+".db"
+
 @pytest.fixture(scope = "function")
 def make_dumbdbm_test_db(request):
 	db_name ="test_dumbdbm"
@@ -67,9 +83,11 @@ def make_dumbdbm_test_db(request):
 	request.addfinalizer(delete_test_dumbdbm)
 	return db_name
 
-# def test_fixture(make_ndbm_test_db):
-# 	print "runing test_fixture with"
-# 	assert whichdb(make_ndbm_test_db) == "dbm"
+
+
+def test_fixture(make_ndbm_test_db):
+	print "runing test_fixture with"
+	assert whichdb(make_ndbm_test_db) == ndbm_type
 
 def test_assert_gdbm_db_is_created_and_correctly_identified(make_gdbm_test_db):
 	print "runing assert_gdbm_db_is_created_and_correctly_identified with gdbm test file"
@@ -93,6 +111,9 @@ def test_assert_reading_dumbdbm_correctly(make_dumbdbm_test_db):
 	assert db.has_key(key1)
 	assert db[key1] == val1
 
+
+#########################
+
 def test_dumpanydbm_identify_gdbm(make_gdbm_test_db):
 	print "running test_dumpanydbm_identify_gdbm"
 	output = subprocess.check_output(["dump-anydbm", make_gdbm_test_db])
@@ -113,6 +134,29 @@ def test_dumpanydbm_identify_gdbm(make_gdbm_test_db):
 	assert db_dump_second_pair[0] == key2
 	assert db_dump_second_pair[1] == val2
 
+def test_dumpanydbm_identify_ndbm(make_ndbm_test_db):
+	print "running test_dumpanydbm_identify_ndbm"
+	output = subprocess.check_output(["dump-anydbm", make_ndbm_test_db])
+	output = output.strip().split("\n")
+
+	print output
+
+	assert len(output) == 3 # 2 keys plus whichdb line
+
+	# split on space, then grab 4th word, which is db type
+	which = output[0].split(' ')[3]
+	print which
+	assert which == ndbm_type
+
+	#split remaining lines on ':' that separates key & value
+	db_dump_first_pair = output[1].split(':')
+	assert db_dump_first_pair[0] == key1
+	assert db_dump_first_pair[1] == val1
+
+	db_dump_second_pair = output[2].split(':')
+	assert db_dump_second_pair[0] == key2
+	assert db_dump_second_pair[1] == val2
+
 def test_dumpanydbm_identify_dumbdbm(make_dumbdbm_test_db):
 	print "running test_dumpanydbm_identify_dumbdbm"
 	output = subprocess.call(["dump-anydbm", make_dumbdbm_test_db])