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# view any existing shelve directly; this is more general than a
# "formtable.py shelve 1 filename" cmdline--only works for Actor;
# pass in a filename (and mode) to use this to browse any shelve:
# formtable auto picks up class from the first instance fetched;
# run dbinit1 to (re)initialize dbase shelve with a template;
##################################################################

from sys import argv
from formtable import *
from formgui import FormGui

mode = 'class'
file = '../data/mydbase-' + mode
if len(argv) > 1: file = argv[1]                  # dbview.py file? mode??
if len(argv) > 2: mode = argv[2]

if mode == 'dict':
    table = ShelveOfDictionary(file)              # view dictionaries
else:
    table = ShelveOfInstance(file)                # view class objects

FormGui(table).mainloop()
table.close()                                     # close needed for some dbm