[issue9562] Slightly misleading wording in documentation of dict.update

Georg Brandl added the comment: Committed original suggestion as r85011. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9562] Slightly misleading wording in documentation of dict.update

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Hello, does the attached patch contains the expected wording? Thanks, Sandro -- nosy: +sandro.tosi Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19013/issue9562-py3k.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue9562] Slightly misleading wording in documentation of dict.update

Éric Araujo added the comment: +1 on committing this change. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue9562] Slightly misleading wording in documentation of dict.update

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I agree with the replacement: 'tuples' and 'interables' modify and must agree with 'pairs', not the initial 'iterable'. -- keywords: +easy, patch nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 _

[issue9562] Slightly misleading wording in documentation of dict.update

New submission from Mitchell Model : The documentation of dict.update says that it "accepts either another dictionary object or an iterable of key/value pairs (as a tuple or other iterable of length two)" The parenthesized phrase is slightly misleading in that it could be interpreted as requir