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[3.11] Docs: spell out sentence about ndbm/gdbm file formats (GH-115470) (#115477) 

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Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
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@ -56,10 +56,6 @@ the Oracle Berkeley DB.
The Unix file access mode of the file (default: octal ``0o666``),
used only when the database has to be created.
.. |incompat_note| replace::
The file formats created by :mod:`dbm.gnu` and :mod:`dbm.ndbm` are incompatible
and can not be used interchangeably.
.. function:: open(file, flag='r', mode=0o666)
Open a database and return the corresponding database object.
@ -160,7 +156,10 @@ The :mod:`dbm.gnu` module provides an interface to the :abbr:`GDBM (GNU dbm)`
library, similar to the :mod:`dbm.ndbm` module, but with additional
functionality like crash tolerance.
.. note:: |incompat_note|
.. note::
The file formats created by :mod:`dbm.gnu` and :mod:`dbm.ndbm` are incompatible
and can not be used interchangeably.
.. exception:: error
@ -263,7 +262,10 @@ The :mod:`dbm.ndbm` module provides an interface to the
This module can be used with the "classic" NDBM interface or the
:abbr:`GDBM (GNU dbm)` compatibility interface.
.. note:: |incompat_note|
.. note::
The file formats created by :mod:`dbm.gnu` and :mod:`dbm.ndbm` are incompatible
and can not be used interchangeably.
.. warning::