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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2019-08-29 07:58:08 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-08-29 07:58:08 (GMT)
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bpo-16468: Clarify which objects can be passed to "choices" in argparse (GH-15566)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
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@@ -1102,9 +1102,8 @@ container should match the type_ specified::
usage: doors.py [-h] {1,2,3}
doors.py: error: argument door: invalid choice: 4 (choose from 1, 2, 3)
-Any object that supports the ``in`` operator can be passed as the *choices*
-value, so :class:`dict` objects, :class:`set` objects, custom containers,
-etc. are all supported.
+Any container can be passed as the *choices* value, so :class:`list` objects,
+:class:`set` objects, and custom containers are all supported.
required