From c0d3f4e445cd74933e298fc0fe793805cf15d6eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:10:40 +0000 Subject: Rephrase dict.fromkeys() news. --- Misc/NEWS | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 066f8a5..4109391 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -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] -- cgit v0.12