Merged revisions 78145 via svnmerge from
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r78145 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 21:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 18 lines
Merged revisions 78141-78142 via svnmerge from
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r78141 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:38:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 6 lines
Issue 5754: tweak shelve doc wording to make it clearer that even when
writeback=True values are written to the backing store when assigned to
the shelf. Add test to confirm that this happens. Doc patch and added
test by Robert Lehmann. I also fixed the cross references to the sync
and close methods.
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r78142 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-10 20:56:42 -0500 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 3 lines
Improve issue 7835 fix per MAL to handle the case that the
module dictionary has also been cleared.
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diff --git a/Lib/shelve.py b/Lib/shelve.py
index 8271dfe..52e471a 100644
--- a/Lib/shelve.py
+++ b/Lib/shelve.py
@@ -136,11 +136,12 @@
self.dict.close()
except AttributeError:
pass
- # _ClosedDict can be None when close is called from __del__ during shutdown
- if _ClosedDict is None:
- self.dict = None
- else:
+ # Catch errors that may happen when close is called from __del__
+ # because CPython is in interpreter shutdown.
+ try:
self.dict = _ClosedDict()
+ except (NameError, TypeError):
+ self.dict = None
def __del__(self):
if not hasattr(self, 'writeback'):