shelve: writing out updates?!

[Paul Rubin]

zen19725 at zen.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:
> >No. Call the .sync() method. Unfortunately, the shelve module is not 
> >well-documented.
> 
> Obviously it's good when stuff is well documented. 
> 
> I wonder if the barrier to good documentation is set too high?
> If i wanted to add some documentation here, ...

I entered a sourceforge bug asking that the doc be updated (thanks,
Robert!).  I've done that several times before for similar small doc
bugs and they've always been taken care of reasonably quickly.
There's a "documentation" category in the bug reporting template for
this purpose.