shelve implementation

[Robin Becker]

In article <20000201.10464788 at sparky.spkydomain>, David Fisher
<python at rose164.wuh.wustl.edu> writes
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>On another archeologial note, both cStringIO and cPickle are copyright 
>Digital Creations and are the only modules that i have found:
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>#define UNLESS(E) if(!(E))
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>which lets them write code like:
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>       UNLESS(PyArg_ParseTuple(...))
>               return NULL;
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>which i think is unbearably cute.
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mumble mumble err err? :)

Somehow I had assumed loads, dumps were intrinsic and not synthetic.

As for cute I seem to remember B or maybe bcpl had 'unless' (or the
equivalent) or maybe I've gone gaga.
-- 
Robin Becker