From ac0675cc013dffd260c65f07760faa9f38047de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:30:55 +0100 Subject: Small clarification in docstring of dict.update(): the positional argument is not required. --- Objects/dictobject.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c index 79894e5..768351e 100644 --- a/Objects/dictobject.c +++ b/Objects/dictobject.c @@ -1973,9 +1973,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(popitem__doc__, 2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty."); PyDoc_STRVAR(update__doc__, -"D.update(E, **F) -> None. Update D from dict/iterable E and F.\n" -"If E has a .keys() method, does: for k in E: D[k] = E[k]\n\ -If E lacks .keys() method, does: for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v\n\ +"D.update([E, ]**F) -> None. Update D from dict/iterable E and F.\n" +"If E present and has a .keys() method, does: for k in E: D[k] = E[k]\n\ +If E present and lacks .keys() method, does: for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v\n\ In either case, this is followed by: for k in F: D[k] = F[k]"); PyDoc_STRVAR(fromkeys__doc__, -- cgit v0.12