[Python-checkins] Document that TestCase.assertCountEqual() can take iterables (GH-686)

[Raymond Hettinger]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/39baace622564867f55cea49483dd1443b8655e3
commit: 39baace622564867f55cea49483dd1443b8655e3
branch: master
author: jkleint <jkleint at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2019-04-23T01:34:29-07:00
summary:

Document that TestCase.assertCountEqual() can take iterables (GH-686)

files:
M Lib/unittest/case.py

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/case.py b/Lib/unittest/case.py
index 972a4658b17b..8ff2546fc207 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/case.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/case.py
@@ -1244,9 +1244,8 @@ def assertDictContainsSubset(self, subset, dictionary, msg=None):
 
 
     def assertCountEqual(self, first, second, msg=None):
-        """An unordered sequence comparison asserting that the same elements,
-        regardless of order.  If the same element occurs more than once,
-        it verifies that the elements occur the same number of times.
+        """Asserts that two iterables have the same elements, the same number of
+        times, without regard to order.
 
             self.assertEqual(Counter(list(first)),
                              Counter(list(second)))