From: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 06:53:07 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Show example of itemgetter() applied to a dictionary (#3431)
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Show example of itemgetter() applied to a dictionary (#3431)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/operator.rst b/Doc/library/operator.rst
index 8121b480cb..76335b179c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/operator.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/operator.rst
@@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ expect a function argument.
       >>> itemgetter(slice(2,None))('ABCDEFG')
       'CDEFG'
 
+      >>> soldier = dict(rank='captain', name='dotterbart')
+      >>> itemgetter('rank')(soldier)
+      'captain'
 
    Example of using :func:`itemgetter` to retrieve specific fields from a
    tuple record: