[docs] tuple or struct_time

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 03.01.2011 19:40, schrieb Georg Brandl:
> Am 03.01.2011 19:35, schrieb Alexander Belopolsky:
>> Functions in the time module that expect broken down time are
>> currently documented as accepting "tuple or struct_time".  For
>> example,
> 
>> http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/time.html#time.strftime
> 
>> However, in recent versions, ".. or struct_time" is redundant because
> 
>>>>> issubclass(time.struct_time, tuple)
>> True
> 
>> I think it would be more informative for a reader to change "tuple or
>> struct_time" to "9-tuple".
> 
> I don't think so -- the reader may not be aware of that subclass
> relationship, and the repr() of struct_time also doesn't make that
> clear (which is anyway not its job).  It certainly doesn't hurt to
> be a little helpful here.

Ah -- changing tuple to 9-tuple is fine of course.

Georg
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