From: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 16:41:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Point out that the setdefault defaults the value to None.  Inspired by
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Point out that the setdefault defaults the value to None.  Inspired by
Michael Chermside's thinking about patch #748126 (the chief upshot of
which thinking was "reject it!").
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index ae1ba43503..01e800ad6f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ provided and \var{k} is not in the map, \code{None} is returned.
 
 \item[(5)] \function{setdefault()} is like \function{get()}, except
 that if \var{k} is missing, \var{x} is both returned and inserted into
-the dictionary as the value of \var{k}.
+the dictionary as the value of \var{k}. \var{x} defaults to \var{None}.
 
 \item[(6)] \function{popitem()} is useful to destructively iterate
 over a dictionary, as often used in set algorithms.