[issue5754] Shelve module writeback parameter does not act as advertised

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks for the patch. I applied the doc patch and a slightly simplified version of the test in r78141 (we tend to just let errors bubble up rather than code explicit Fails, since as often as not if you provide a specific message it turns out to be wrong whe

[issue5754] Shelve module writeback parameter does not act as advertised

Robert Lehmann added the comment: I think you're misquoting Python's shelve module documentation in your first sentence. The documentation says: "By default modified objects are written only when assigned to the shelf [...]. If the optional writeback parameter is set to True, all entries accesse

[issue5754] Shelve module writeback parameter does not act as advertised

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[issue5754] Shelve module writeback parameter does not act as advertised

New submission from Jorge Herskovic : The shelve module documentation states that "by default, mutations to persistent-dictionary mutable entries are not automatically written back. If the optional writeback parameter is set to True, all entries accessed are cached in memory, and written back at