Backport Martin's checkin 1.4 (with minor fix):

Fix bug #422702: Make flag argument to open optional, and document it that way.

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdbhash.tex b/Doc/lib/libdbhash.tex
index 61b01639fd910cf58b2b91aa0e7b516a38ee4a81..4b856de0b8e0c0764641016b4d6ea5f739d97721 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libdbhash.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libdbhash.tex
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ This module provides an exception and a function:
   \exception{KeyError}.  It is a synonym for \exception{bsddb.error}.
 \end{excdesc}
 
-\begin{funcdesc}{open}{path, flag\optional{, mode}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{open}{path\optional{, flag\optional{, mode}}}
   Open a \code{db} database and return the database object.  The
   \var{path} argument is the name of the database file.