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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-02-07 23:10:33 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-02-07 23:10:33 (GMT)
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Issue #11141: Fix the shelve documentation to use a list, not a range object.
Patch by SilentGhost.
-rw-r--r--Doc/ACKS.txt1
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/shelve.rst4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/ACKS.txt b/Doc/ACKS.txt
index bcf70b5..c51d211 100644
--- a/Doc/ACKS.txt
+++ b/Doc/ACKS.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ docs@python.org), and we'll be glad to correct the problem.
* Joakim Sernbrant
* Justin Sheehy
* Charlie Shepherd
+ * SilentGhost
* Michael Simcich
* Ionel Simionescu
* Michael Sloan
diff --git a/Doc/library/shelve.rst b/Doc/library/shelve.rst
index 4b49a2f..9d7d504 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shelve.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shelve.rst
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ object)::
klist = list(d.keys()) # a list of all existing keys (slow!)
# as d was opened WITHOUT writeback=True, beware:
- d['xx'] = range(4) # this works as expected, but...
- d['xx'].append(5) # *this doesn't!* -- d['xx'] is STILL range(4)!
+ d['xx'] = [0, 1, 2] # this works as expected, but...
+ d['xx'].append(3) # *this doesn't!* -- d['xx'] is STILL [0, 1, 2]!
# having opened d without writeback=True, you need to code carefully:
temp = d['xx'] # extracts the copy