From 65e5399081e23d7b1efbf685096c65d0a0ab912b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:12:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't write "if self.dict: self.dict.close()"; just write
 "self.dict.close()" and ignore the exception.  The "if self.dict:" part would
 be calculated through len(self.dict.keys()), which is very expensive for a
 large dictionary...

---
 Lib/shelve.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/shelve.py b/Lib/shelve.py
index 9b65a0911fa..6bdc0305dd9 100644
--- a/Lib/shelve.py
+++ b/Lib/shelve.py
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ class Shelf:
 	
 	def close(self):
 		try:
-			if self.dict:
-				self.dict.close()
+                    self.dict.close()
 		except:
 			pass
 		self.dict = 0