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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 7c2ed4d..9e847cc 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1589,8 +1589,8 @@ a sequence, the allowable keys should be the integers *k* for which ``0 <= k < N`` where *N* is the length of the sequence, or slice objects, which define a range of items. It is also recommended that mappings provide the methods :meth:`keys`, :meth:`values`, :meth:`items`, :meth:`has_key`, :meth:`get`, -:meth:`clear`, :meth:`setdefault`, :meth:`iterkeys`, :meth:`itervalues`, -:meth:`iteritems`, :meth:`pop`, :meth:`popitem`, :meth:`copy`, and +:meth:`clear`, :meth:`setdefault`, +:meth:`pop`, :meth:`popitem`, :meth:`copy`, and :meth:`update` behaving similar to those for Python's standard dictionary objects. The :mod:`UserDict` module provides a :class:`DictMixin` class to help create those methods from a base set of :meth:`__getitem__`, @@ -1608,7 +1608,7 @@ should be equivalent of :meth:`has_key`; for sequences, it should search through the values. It is further recommended that both mappings and sequences implement the :meth:`__iter__` method to allow efficient iteration through the container; for mappings, :meth:`__iter__` should be the same as -:meth:`iterkeys`; for sequences, it should iterate through the values. +:meth:`keys`; for sequences, it should iterate through the values. .. method:: object.__len__(self) @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ container; for mappings, :meth:`__iter__` should be the same as This method is called when an iterator is required for a container. This method should return a new iterator object that can iterate over all the objects in the container. For mappings, it should iterate over the keys of the container, and - should also be made available as the method :meth:`iterkeys`. + should also be made available as the method :meth:`keys`. Iterator objects also need to implement this method; they are required to return themselves. For more information on iterator objects, see :ref:`typeiter`. |