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diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
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@@ -509,11 +509,14 @@ or subtracting from an empty counter.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
- .. method:: rotate(n)
+ .. method:: rotate(n=1)
- Rotate the deque *n* steps to the right. If *n* is negative, rotate to
- the left. Rotating one step to the right is equivalent to:
- ``d.appendleft(d.pop())``.
+ Rotate the deque *n* steps to the right. If *n* is negative, rotate
+ to the left.
+
+ When the deque is empty, rotating one step to the right is equivalent
+ to ``d.appendleft(d.pop())``, and rotating one step to the left is
+ equivalent to ``d.append(d.popleft())``.
Deque objects also provide one read-only attribute: