survey: is shelve broken? should it be fixed?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1020794352.2944.python-list at python.org>,
holger krekel  <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:
>
>i'd suggest something like
>
>    shelve.returncopies=0
>
>on a global module level. Every time we are 
>fixing "python semantics" rather than introducing new 
>features we should do it on the module level.
>
>These keyword-arguments like 'smart' are code-bloat
>and scattered all over the code. Having a section
>on top of a python script basically like
>
>assert(pythonversion >2.2.4)
>if pythonversion < 2.3.0:
>    shelve.returncopies=0
>    somemodule.somefeature=1
>
>is just much nicer and encapsulated.

+1
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