[issue6801] symmetric_difference_update documentation fix
Georg Brandl
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Aug 31 08:40:42 CEST 2009
Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> added the comment:
> Well, in that case I don't understand how it is different from
> difference_update() ?
It's different from difference_update because that takes multiple
arguments. The operator form shows an equivalent and therefore shows how
to write an equivalent of the method with multiple arguments.
> suggesting that you can pipe several sets with -=,
> exactly like what you can do with ^=.
Of course you can put multiple or'ed sets on the right of ^=, but then
you can put every expression there.
> In other words, this whole section is unclear in
> what "other" is, and why we have "others" sometimes.
< (eg a set or a several sets piped together for example)
I've fixed two other descriptions in r74603, it should be consistent now.
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