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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2009-02-04 19:45:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2009-02-04 19:45:13 (GMT) |
| commit | d04fa31f7357a4499c630985ebb65391ec6197bf (patch) | |
| tree | ffdf40fa58e0a984904fe2f821f9d1a2d66b5714 /Doc | |
| parent | 1c62dc9d73ccb324ce7e15d321f4603894dcd4d3 (diff) | |
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Minor doc fixes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/glossary.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/collections.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/itertools.rst | 6 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index f8d0e67..34e4858 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ Glossary also :term:`immutable`. named tuple - Any tuple subclass whose indexable elements are also accessible using + Any tuple-like class whose indexable elements are also accessible using named attributes (for example, :func:`time.localtime` returns a tuple-like object where the *year* is accessible either with an index such as ``t[0]`` or with a named attribute like ``t.tm_year``). diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index 41b4eba..32cc639 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ For example:: .. method:: most_common([n]) Return a list of the *n* most common elements and their counts from the - most common to the least. If *n* not specified, :func:`most_common` + most common to the least. If *n* is not specified, :func:`most_common` returns *all* elements in the counter. Elements with equal counts are ordered arbitrarily:: diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst index 618cf7d..634b909 100644 --- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ loops that truncate the stream. class groupby(object): # [k for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCDAABBB')] --> A B C D A B - # [(list(g)) for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCD')] --> AAAA BBB CC D + # [list(g) for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCD')] --> AAAA BBB CC D def __init__(self, iterable, key=None): if key is None: key = lambda x: x @@ -591,8 +591,8 @@ which incur interpreter overhead. return map(function, count(start)) def nth(iterable, n): - "Returns the nth item or empty list" - return list(islice(iterable, n, n+1)) + "Returns the nth item or None" + return next(islice(iterable, n, None), None) def quantify(iterable, pred=bool): "Count how many times the predicate is true" |