Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: When shelve stores its data on a disk, it is more similar to a file. After all, it can contain gigabytes of data, much larger than Python can address in RAM.
I you want more readable repr, I with Raymond, -- use the repr of the underlying db and add readable repr for dbm objects (including file name and open mode). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21670> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
