survey: is shelve broken? should it be fixed?

[Gerhard Häring]

Roman Suzi wrote in comp.lang.python:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
>> We probably can't change this default (mis-)behavior due to backward
>> compatibility needs, but it wouldn't be too hard to at least give a simple 
>> _optional_ way out, even though off-by-default:
>> [...]
> I think it is better to fix and not looking for backward compatibility!
> It will not be seen on the background of other major changes to Python.
> So, no smart is needed, IMHO.

I agree.

> Or, maybe python needs some runtime key or phrase like:
> 
> from __past__ import broken_shelve

I hope this was a joke. You never know with some of the PEPs ;-)

Gerhard
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