diff Objects/dictobject.c @ 74044:393906d020fe 3.2

Small clarification in docstring of dict.update(): the positional argument is not required.
author Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
date Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:30:55 +0100
parents df24a8b57148
children 90572ccda12c e49fdf7d149b
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--- a/Objects/dictobject.c	Sun Dec 18 19:22:31 2011 +0100
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c	Sun Dec 18 19:30:55 2011 +0100
@@ -1973,9 +1973,9 @@
 2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.");
 
 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__,