Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Fri Nov 4 21:34:30 CET 2011

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On 11/4/2011 4:25 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 22.21, Eric V. Smith wrote:
>> On 11/4/2011 4:08 PM, raymond.hettinger wrote:
>>
>>> -   .. note::
>>> +   Like file objects, shelve objects should closed explicitly to assure
>>> +   that the peristent data is flushed to disk.
>> Missing "be" there, I think: "should be closed".
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>> Eric.
> 
> And on the next line it should be 'persistent'.

And I'd argue that it should be "ensure" instead of "assure": you
"ensure" an event occurs, you "assure" a person that it does. But it's a
nit I wouldn't normally object to. Ezio is just making me re-read the
sentence!

Eric.

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