Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string

argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

Lib/test/test_dbm_ndbm.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class DbmTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.d[b'bytes'] = b'data'
         self.d['12345678910'] = '019237410982340912840198242'
         self.d.keys()
+        self.assertIn('a', self.d)
         self.assertIn(b'a', self.d)
         self.assertEqual(self.d[b'bytes'], b'data')
         self.d.close()

Misc/NEWS

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Projected release date: 2013-11-24
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string
+  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+
 - Issue #19369: Optimized the usage of __length_hint__().
 
 - Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the

Modules/_dbmmodule.c

@@ -221,9 +221,9 @@ dbm_contains(PyObject *self, PyObject *arg)
         if (key.dptr == NULL)
             return -1;
     }
-    if (!PyBytes_Check(arg)) {
+    else if (!PyBytes_Check(arg)) {
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     "dbm key must be string, not %.100s",
+                     "dbm key must be bytes or string, not %.100s",
                      arg->ob_type->tp_name);
         return -1;
     }