python 2.1b shelve is broken

[drach]

BPO	410146
Nosy	@gvanrossum

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title = 'python 2.1b shelve is broken'
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[drach]

python 2.1b shelve module is broken, on Redhat Linux
6.2:

% python
Python 2.1b1 (#1, Mar 19 2001, 15:18:14)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import shelve
>>> f = shelve.open('testshelve')
>>> f.keys()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/cdat/alpha/lib/python2.1/shelve.py",
line 56, in keys
    return self.dict.keys()
MemoryError

[gvanrossum]

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This was actually a bug introduced recently in the bsddb
module. Thanks for reporting this! It's now fixed in the
CVS tree, just in time for the 2.1b2 release.