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authorNick Gaya <nicholasgaya+github@gmail.com>2020-12-11 08:27:35 (GMT)
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bpo-41879: Doc: Fix description of async for statement (GH-23548)
Fix the wording in the documentation of `async for` to correctly describe asynchronous iterables. This fix is relevant for version 3.7 onward.
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@@ -796,12 +796,12 @@ The :keyword:`!async for` statement
.. productionlist:: python-grammar
async_for_stmt: "async" `for_stmt`
-An :term:`asynchronous iterable` is able to call asynchronous code in its
-*iter* implementation, and :term:`asynchronous iterator` can call asynchronous
-code in its *next* method.
+An :term:`asynchronous iterable` provides an ``__aiter__`` method that directly
+returns an :term:`asynchronous iterator`, which can call asynchronous code in
+its ``__anext__`` method.
The ``async for`` statement allows convenient iteration over asynchronous
-iterators.
+iterables.
The following code::