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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2006-07-03 14:07:30 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2006-07-03 14:07:30 (GMT)
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[Bug #1515932] Clarify description of slice assignment
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -1101,7 +1101,8 @@ The following operations are defined on mutable sequence types (where
\lineiii{\var{s}[\var{i}] = \var{x}}
{item \var{i} of \var{s} is replaced by \var{x}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}[\var{i}:\var{j}] = \var{t}}
- {slice of \var{s} from \var{i} to \var{j} is replaced by \var{t}}{}
+ {slice of \var{s} from \var{i} to \var{j}
+ is replaced by the contents of the iterable \var{t}}{}
\lineiii{del \var{s}[\var{i}:\var{j}]}
{same as \code{\var{s}[\var{i}:\var{j}] = []}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}[\var{i}:\var{j}:\var{k}] = \var{t}}