problems with shelve(), collections.defaultdict, self

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The following code demonstrates that a collections.defaultdict is
shelve worthy:


import shelve
import collections as c


dd = c.defaultdict(int)
dd["Joe"] = 3
print(dd)

my_shelve = shelve.open('data.shelve')
my_shelve['strike_record'] = dd
my_shelve.close()

my_shelve = shelve.open('data.shelve')
data = my_shelve['strike_record']
my_shelve.close()

dd.clear()
dd.update(data)
print(dd)

--output:--
defaultdict(<class 'int'>, {'Joe': 3})
defaultdict(<class 'int'>, {'Joe': 3})


And the following code demonstrates that a class that inherits from
dict can shelve itself:

import collections as c
import shelve

class Dog(dict):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(Joe=1)
        print('****', self)

    def save(self):
        my_shelve = shelve.open('data22.shelve')
        my_shelve['x'] = self
        my_shelve.close()

    def load(self):
        my_shelve = shelve.open('data22.shelve')
        data = my_shelve['x']
        my_shelve.close()

        print(data)


d = Dog()
d.save()
d.load()

--output:--
**** {'Joe': 1}
{'Joe': 1}


But I cannot get a class that inherits from collections.defaultdict to
shelve itself:


import collections as c
import shelve

class Dog(c.defaultdict):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(int, Joe=0)
        print('****', self)

    def save(self):
        my_shelve = shelve.open('data22.shelve')
        my_shelve['dd'] = self
        my_shelve.close()

    def load(self):
        my_shelve = shelve.open('data22.shelve')
        data = my_shelve['dd']
        my_shelve.close()

        print(data)


d = Dog()
d.save()
d.load()

--output:--

**** defaultdict(<class 'int'>, {'Joe': 30})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/lib/
python3.2/shelve.py", line 111, in __getitem__
    value = self.cache[key]
KeyError: 'dd'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "3.py", line 95, in <module>
    d.load()
  File "3.py", line 87, in load
    data = my_shelve['dd']
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/lib/
python3.2/shelve.py", line 114, in __getitem__
    value = Unpickler(f).load()
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 1 positional argument (2 given)



I deleted all *.shelve.db files between program runs.  I can't figure
out what I'm doing wrong.