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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/shelve.rst2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_shelve.py4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shelve.rst b/Doc/library/shelve.rst
index 1ec158e..db66a63 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shelve.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shelve.rst
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Restrictions
A subclass of :class:`collections.abc.MutableMapping` which stores pickled
values in the *dict* object.
- By default, version 0 pickles are used to serialize values. The version of the
+ By default, version 3 pickles are used to serialize values. The version of the
pickle protocol can be specified with the *protocol* parameter. See the
:mod:`pickle` documentation for a discussion of the pickle protocols.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shelve.py b/Lib/test/test_shelve.py
index bd51d86..b71af2b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shelve.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shelve.py
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
else:
self.fail('Closed shelf should not find a key')
+ def test_default_protocol(self):
+ with shelve.Shelf({}) as s:
+ self.assertEqual(s._protocol, 3)
+
from test import mapping_tests
class TestShelveBase(mapping_tests.BasicTestMappingProtocol):