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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-09-25 07:57:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-09-25 07:57:24 (GMT) |
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[3.6] bpo-18558: Clarify glossary entry for "Iterable" (GH-3732) (#3741)
(cherry picked from commit 0bf287b6e0a42877b06cbea5d0fe6474d8061caa)
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index dba9186..b947520 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -535,7 +535,10 @@ Glossary iterables include all sequence types (such as :class:`list`, :class:`str`, and :class:`tuple`) and some non-sequence types like :class:`dict`, :term:`file objects <file object>`, and objects of any classes you define - with an :meth:`__iter__` or :meth:`__getitem__` method. Iterables can be + with an :meth:`__iter__` method or with a :meth:`__getitem__` method + that implements :term:`Sequence` semantics. + + Iterables can be used in a :keyword:`for` loop and in many other places where a sequence is needed (:func:`zip`, :func:`map`, ...). When an iterable object is passed as an argument to the built-in function :func:`iter`, it returns an |