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authorSergey Golitsynskiy <sgolitsynskiy@gmail.com>2020-07-11 23:18:31 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-07-11 23:18:31 (GMT)
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Fix error in docstrings in bisect module (GH-21422)
The docstrings for `bisect_right()` and `bisect_left()` contain sample code that has a bug: `a.insert(x)` should be `a.insert(i, x)`.
-rw-r--r--Lib/bisect.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/bisect.py b/Lib/bisect.py
index 8f3f6a3..8336a4e 100644
--- a/Lib/bisect.py
+++ b/Lib/bisect.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def bisect_right(a, x, lo=0, hi=None):
"""Return the index where to insert item x in list a, assuming a is sorted.
The return value i is such that all e in a[:i] have e <= x, and all e in
- a[i:] have e > x. So if x already appears in the list, a.insert(x) will
+ a[i:] have e > x. So if x already appears in the list, a.insert(i, x) will
insert just after the rightmost x already there.
Optional args lo (default 0) and hi (default len(a)) bound the
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def bisect_left(a, x, lo=0, hi=None):
"""Return the index where to insert item x in list a, assuming a is sorted.
The return value i is such that all e in a[:i] have e < x, and all e in
- a[i:] have e >= x. So if x already appears in the list, a.insert(x) will
+ a[i:] have e >= x. So if x already appears in the list, a.insert(i, x) will
insert just before the leftmost x already there.
Optional args lo (default 0) and hi (default len(a)) bound the