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  r79172 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:08:00 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Add a paragraph about set displays.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1704,6 +1704,10 @@ The :class:`frozenset` type is immutable and :term:`hashable` --- its contents c
 altered after it is created; it can therefore be used as a dictionary key or as
 an element of another set.
 
+Non-empty sets (not frozensets) can be created by placing a comma-separated list
+of elements pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack', 'sjoerd'}``, in
+addition to the :class:`set` constructor.
+
 The constructors for both classes work the same:
 
 .. class:: set([iterable])