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@@ -270,10 +270,11 @@ Core and builtins an optional argument that specifies the characters to strip. For example, "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". -- Dictionaries have a new class method, fromkeys(iterable, value=None). - It constructs a new dictionary with keys taken from the iterable and - all values set to a single value. It is used for building membership - tests and for removing duplicates from sequences. +- There's a new dictionary constructor (a class method of the dict + class), dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None). It constructs a + dictionary with keys taken from the iterable and all values set to a + single value. It can be used for building sets and for removing + duplicates from sequences. - Added a new dict method pop(key). This removes and returns the value corresponding to key. [SF patch #539949] |