[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Small clarification in docstring of dict.update(): the positional argument is

[georg.brandl]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d9bb270feb58
changeset:   74046:d9bb270feb58
branch:      2.7
parent:      74036:775319cebaa3
user:        Georg Brandl <georg at python.org>
date:        Sun Dec 18 19:30:55 2011 +0100
summary:
  Small clarification in docstring of dict.update(): the positional argument is not required.

files:
  Objects/dictobject.c |  6 +++---
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -2167,9 +2167,9 @@
 "D.values() -> list of D's values");
 
 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__,

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