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Issue #11141: Fix the shelve documentation to use a list, not a range object.

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Patch by SilentGhost.
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Antoine Pitrou 2011-02-07 23:10:33 +00:00
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@ -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

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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