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diff --git a/Doc/library/shelve.rst b/Doc/library/shelve.rst index de22833..499ab51 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shelve.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shelve.rst @@ -7,16 +7,14 @@ .. index:: module: pickle +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/shelve.py` + A "shelf" is a persistent, dictionary-like object. The difference with "dbm" databases is that the values (not the keys!) in a shelf can be essentially arbitrary Python objects --- anything that the :mod:`pickle` module can handle. This includes most class instances, recursive data types, and objects containing lots of shared sub-objects. The keys are ordinary strings. -.. seealso:: - - Latest version of the :source:`shelve module Python source code - <Lib/shelve.py>` .. function:: open(filename, flag='c', protocol=None, writeback=False) |