The key-value pairs can be lists or tuples or any iterable.

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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 58dd614..ef364b2 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ Here is a small example using a dictionary::
    False
 
 The :func:`dict` constructor builds dictionaries directly from sequences of
-key-value pairs stored as tuples. ::
+key-value pairs::
 
    >>> dict([('sape', 4139), ('guido', 4127), ('jack', 4098)])
    {'sape': 4139, 'jack': 4098, 'guido': 4127}