From 558e7e42becd52dc6fa828b072083c6855be6f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 07:57:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix misleading docsting of shelve.open(). (GH-6427) The protocol parameter can be any protocol supported by the pickle module. (cherry picked from commit 2ef65f346a5e829a886c075f519e3a49a2ebbde7) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka --- Lib/shelve.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/shelve.py b/Lib/shelve.py index 4a56c93ea01..5d443a0fa8d 100644 --- a/Lib/shelve.py +++ b/Lib/shelve.py @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ def open(filename, flag='c', protocol=None, writeback=False): filename and more than one file may be created. The optional flag parameter has the same interpretation as the flag parameter of dbm.open(). The optional protocol parameter specifies the - version of the pickle protocol (0, 1, or 2). + version of the pickle protocol. See the module's __doc__ string for an overview of the interface. """