shelve.open() documentation was updated in f351fb7ea179.

Original patch by Filip Gruszczyński.

'latin-1' and 'utf-8'.

These are optimized in the Python Unicode implementation
to result in more direct processing, bypassing the codec
registry.

Also see issue11303.

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  r77841 | ezio.melotti | 2010-01-30 09:22:54 +0200 (Sat, 30 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  #7092: silence py3k warnings for deprecated modules
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  r78145 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 21:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 18 lines

  Merged revisions 78141-78142 via svnmerge from
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    r78141 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:38:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 6 lines

    Issue 5754:  tweak shelve doc wording to make it clearer that even when
    writeback=True values are written to the backing store when assigned to
    the shelf.  Add test to confirm that this happens.  Doc patch and added
    test by Robert Lehmann.  I also fixed the cross references to the sync
    and close methods.
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    r78142 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:56:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

    Improve issue 7835 fix per MAL to handle the case that the
    module dictionary has also been cleared.
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  r78141 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:38:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue 5754:  tweak shelve doc wording to make it clearer that even when
  writeback=True values are written to the backing store when assigned to
  the shelf.  Add test to confirm that this happens.  Doc patch and added
  test by Robert Lehmann.  I also fixed the cross references to the sync
  and close methods.
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  r78142 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:56:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Improve issue 7835 fix per MAL to handle the case that the
  module dictionary has also been cleared.
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  r78141 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:38:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue 5754:  tweak shelve doc wording to make it clearer that even when
  writeback=True values are written to the backing store when assigned to
  the shelf.  Add test to confirm that this happens.  Doc patch and added
  test by Robert Lehmann.  I also fixed the cross references to the sync
  and close methods.
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  r78142 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:56:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Improve issue 7835 fix per MAL to handle the case that the
  module dictionary has also been cleared.
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writeback=True values are written to the backing store when assigned to
the shelf.  Add test to confirm that this happens.  Doc patch and added
test by Robert Lehmann.  I also fixed the cross references to the sync
and close methods.

mistake. ( It may come in for sure tough)

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  r65209 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-23 19:08:18 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Finish-up the partial conversion from int to Py_ssize_t for deque indices and length.
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  r65210 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-23 19:53:49 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Parse to the correct datatype.
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  r65211 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 21:27:46 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  fix spacing
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  r65212 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 21:31:28 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  fix markup
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  r65213 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 21:45:37 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  add some documentation for 2to3
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  r65214 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-24 00:38:48 -0500 (Thu, 24 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Finish conversion from int to Py_ssize_t.
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  r65215 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-24 02:04:55 -0500 (Thu, 24 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Convert from long to Py_ssize_t.
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  r65216 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-24 02:09:21 -0500 (Thu, 24 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix indentation.
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  r65225 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-25 11:55:37 -0500 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  teach .bzrignore about doc tools
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  r65226 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-25 12:02:11 -0500 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  document default value for fillvalue
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  r65233 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-25 13:43:33 -0500 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 1592:  Better error reporting for operations on closed shelves.
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  r65239 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-25 16:59:53 -0500 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  fix indentation
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  r65246 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-26 08:08:19 -0500 (Sat, 26 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  This sentence continues to bug me; rewrite it for the second time
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  r65247 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-26 08:09:06 -0500 (Sat, 26 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Remove extra words
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  r65255 | skip.montanaro | 2008-07-26 19:49:02 -0500 (Sat, 26 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Close issue 3437 - missing state change when Allow lines are processed.
  Adds test cases which use Allow: as well.
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  r65256 | skip.montanaro | 2008-07-26 19:50:41 -0500 (Sat, 26 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  note robotparser bug fix.
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Use test_support.unlink instead of os.unlink in tearDown().  (Seems to fix an occasional failure in Windows Vista.)

the underlying storage, and yet provide string keys.

This does nothing to fix the tests though...

same as for the string and sequence tests.

mapping tests as possible in mapping_test.py and reuse the tests in
test_dict.py, test_userdict.py, test_weakref.py, test_os.py and test_shelve.py.
From SF patch #736962.

riscospath.extsep, and use os.extsep throughout.

and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.

Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.

From SF patch #662807.

* Adds missing pop() methods to weakref.py
* Expands test suite to broaden coverage of objects with
  a mapping interface.

Contributed by Sebastien Keim.

this can result in significantly smaller files.  All classes as well as the
open function now accept an optional binary parameter, which defaults to
False for backward compatibility.  Added a small test suite, updated the
libref documentation (including documenting the exported classes and fixing
a few other nits) and added a note about the change to Misc/NEWS.