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| author | Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com> | 2012-10-13 10:22:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com> | 2012-10-13 10:22:33 (GMT) |
| commit | f341317185ef7ec6d0cfb2ca93c9d253c3c75305 (patch) | |
| tree | 08f1a6c5e759c109fdc00c1cc72f676638e43a15 /Doc/library/functions.rst | |
| parent | 7a9953edfbbd51dbda60ab31c0e5db5eea968b53 (diff) | |
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Issue #16206: Improve the documentation of the dict constructor.
This change includes replacing the single-line signature documentation
with a more complete multiple-line signature.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 572706a..b7d7e08 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -266,14 +266,17 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. _func-dict: -.. function:: dict([arg]) +.. function:: dict(**kwarg) + dict(mapping, **kwarg) + dict(iterable, **kwarg) :noindex: - Create a new data dictionary, optionally with items taken from *arg*. - The dictionary type is described in :ref:`typesmapping`. + Create a new dictionary. The :class:`dict` object is the dictionary class. + See :class:`dict` and :ref:`typesmapping` for documentation about this + class. - For other containers see the built in :class:`list`, :class:`set`, and - :class:`tuple` classes, and the :mod:`collections` module. + For other containers see the built-in :class:`list`, :class:`set`, and + :class:`tuple` classes, as well as the :mod:`collections` module. .. function:: dir([object]) |