[Python-checkins] Document that dict.fromkeys accepts any iterable for keys (GH-10998) (GH-11294)

Raymond Hettinger webhook-mailer at python.org
Sat Dec 22 23:56:05 EST 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a58c8442f15914a43a83862f2644569263b1ed7d
commit: a58c8442f15914a43a83862f2644569263b1ed7d
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-12-22T20:56:01-08:00
summary:

Document that dict.fromkeys accepts any iterable for keys (GH-10998) (GH-11294)

(cherry picked from commit f06fba5965b4265c42291d10454f387b76111f26)

Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index dd5a8ed35bf9..057c5d5f35c0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -4201,9 +4201,9 @@ 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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