survey: is shelve broken? should it be fixed?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: holger krekel [mailto:pyth at devel.trillke.net] 
> 
> Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> > > From: holger krekel [mailto:pyth at devel.trillke.net]
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > Might i ask whether you read my suggestion to
> > > implement the "smart"-switch at the global module level?
> > 
> > I'm -1 on this (in case I want to open both regular and read-only 
> > files).
> 
> You actually want to use the copying version and the in-place 
> version of shelve mixed in one file? 
[snip]

No, I want to have two shelve files open with different characteristics,
and it makes more sense to me to indicate which characteristic an object
should have in the constructor...

-- bjorn