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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.
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@@ -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