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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2014-06-16 07:05:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2014-06-16 07:05:37 (GMT) |
| commit | f2fb73f6757d569d176811e849a2732861ec6eb9 (patch) | |
| tree | bf8cac643ebfdf6225a83eee5e06dc9820be8244 | |
| parent | d0c1ea42f76e19dc3d04238c29cdd14a7ce39899 (diff) | |
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Issue #19362: Tweek len() doc and docstring to expand the indicated range of
arguments. Original patch by Gareth Rees.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/bltinmodule.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 02e6374..ea489ac 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -742,7 +742,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: len(s) Return the length (the number of items) of an object. The argument may be a - sequence (string, tuple or list) or a mapping (dictionary). + sequence (such as a string, bytes, tuple, list, or range) or a collection + (such as a dictionary, set, or frozen set). .. _func-list: diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c index d351cd0..a81af65 100644 --- a/Python/bltinmodule.c +++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ builtin_len(PyObject *self, PyObject *v) PyDoc_STRVAR(len_doc, "len(object)\n\ \n\ -Return the number of items of a sequence or mapping."); +Return the number of items of a sequence or collection."); static PyObject * |