Merged revisions 78515-78516,78522 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78515 | georg.brandl | 2010-02-28 20:19:17 +0200 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 1 line #8030: make builtin type docstrings more consistent: use "iterable" instead of "seq(uence)", use "new" to show that set() always returns a new object. ........ r78516 | georg.brandl | 2010-02-28 20:26:37 +0200 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 1 line The set types can also be called without arguments. ........ r78522 | ezio.melotti | 2010-03-01 01:59:00 +0200 (Mon, 01 Mar 2010) | 1 line #8030: more docstring fix for builtin types. ........

--- a/Objects/setobject.c	Mon Mar 01 03:11:09 2010 +0000
+++ b/Objects/setobject.c	Mon Mar 01 04:05:56 2010 +0000
@@ -2102,7 +2102,8 @@
 };
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(set_doc,
-"set(iterable) --> set object\n\
+"set() -> new empty set object\n\
+set(iterable) -> new set object\n\
 \n\
 Build an unordered collection of unique elements.");
 
@@ -2200,7 +2201,8 @@
 };
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(frozenset_doc,
-"frozenset(iterable) --> frozenset object\n\
+"frozenset() -> empty frozenset object\n\
+frozenset(iterable) -> frozenset object\n\
 \n\
 Build an immutable unordered collection of unique elements.");