Replying to oneself is bad, but although the program works, I never intended to use a shelve to store the data. Better to use anydbm.
So, just replace:
import shelve
by
import anydbm
and
lineindex = shelve.open("test.idx")
by
lineindex = anydbm.open("test.idx","c")
Keep the rest as is.
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