Fix misleading docsting of shelve.open(). (GH-6427)

The protocol parameter can be any protocol supported by the
pickle module.

diff --git a/Lib/shelve.py b/Lib/shelve.py
index 4a56c93ea01502b81ccefca69c070f47c96a454c..5d443a0fa8d4f14c56b1ca2497a621f0d02683d7 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/shelve.py
+++ b/Lib/shelve.py
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ def open(filename, flag='c', protocol=None, writeback=False):
     filename and more than one file may be created.  The optional flag
     parameter has the same interpretation as the flag parameter of
     dbm.open(). The optional protocol parameter specifies the
-    version of the pickle protocol (0, 1, or 2).
+    version of the pickle protocol.
 
     See the module's __doc__ string for an overview of the interface.
     """