[Python-checkins] Document that dict.fromkeys accepts any iterable for keys (GH-10998)

Raymond Hettinger webhook-mailer at python.org
Sat Dec 22 23:14:49 EST 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f06fba5965b4265c42291d10454f387b76111f26
commit: f06fba5965b4265c42291d10454f387b76111f26
branch: master
author: Andre Delfino <adelfino at gmail.com>
committer: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-12-22T20:14:46-08:00
summary:

Document that dict.fromkeys accepts any iterable for keys (GH-10998)

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 0262c0292f52..c699553c02b9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -4239,9 +4239,9 @@ pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack': 4098, 'sjoerd': 4127}`` or ``{4098:
 
       Return a shallow copy of the dictionary.
 
-   .. classmethod:: fromkeys(seq[, value])
+   .. classmethod:: fromkeys(iterable[, value])
 
-      Create a new dictionary with keys from *seq* and values set to *value*.
+      Create a new dictionary with keys from *iterable* and values set to *value*.
 
       :meth:`fromkeys` is a class method that returns a new dictionary. *value*
       defaults to ``None``.



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