New submission from Eric O. LEBIGOT: The pydoc documentation for filter reads: filter(function or None, sequence) -> list, tuple, or string Return those items of sequence for which function(item) is true. If function is None, return the items that are true. If sequence is a tuple or string, return the same type, else return a list. It would be nicer to know (e.g. when offline and with no local access to the HTML documentation) that filter() can actually be used more generally with an iterable: filter(function or None, **iterable**) -> list, tuple, or string Return those items of **iterable** for which… ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 233416 nosy: docs@python, lebigot priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: "pydoc filter" documentation restrictive type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23164> _______________________________________