From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:30:55 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Small clarification in docstring of dict.update(): the positional argument is not... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.3rc1~238^2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6f14c330fa1fed40f6b4e3b4ed069e596212a7f7;p=python

Small clarification in docstring of dict.update(): the positional argument is not required.
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diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index f2ebf456b4..ac99cfb18e 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -2167,9 +2167,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(values__doc__,
 "D.values() -> list of D's values");
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(update__doc__,
-"D.update(E, **F) -> None.  Update D from dict/iterable E and F.\n"
-"If E has a .keys() method, does:     for k in E: D[k] = E[k]\n\
-If E lacks .keys() method, does:     for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v\n\
+"D.update([E, ]**F) -> None.  Update D from dict/iterable E and F.\n"
+"If E present and has a .keys() method, does:     for k in E: D[k] = E[k]\n\
+If E present and lacks .keys() method, does:     for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v\n\
 In either case, this is followed by: for k in F: D[k] = F[k]");
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(fromkeys__doc__,