New submission from Sander Steffann: The "class shelve.Shelf(dict, protocol=None, writeback=False, keyencoding='utf-8')" section still says "By default, version 0 pickles are used to serialize values.". This is incorrect. The default version has been 3 since this commit: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/f351fb7ea179/Lib/shelve.py ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 269652 nosy: Sander Steffann, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Shelve pickle version error type: enhancement versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27431> _______________________________________