From: Chris Barker <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:43:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Elaborate datetime.timedelta docstring (GH-7458)
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Elaborate datetime.timedelta docstring (GH-7458)
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diff --git a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
index b7c59f1bd8..cdfa235f09 100644
--- a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
@@ -2641,7 +2641,11 @@ static PyMethodDef delta_methods[] = {
 };
 
 static const char delta_doc[] =
-PyDoc_STR("Difference between two datetime values.");
+PyDoc_STR("Difference between two datetime values.\n\n"
+          "timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, "
+          "minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)\n\n"
+          "All arguments are optional and default to 0.\n"
+          "Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.");
 
 static PyNumberMethods delta_as_number = {
     delta_add,                                  /* nb_add */