[docs] [issue10240] dict.update.__doc__ is misleading

Raymond Hettinger report at bugs.python.org
Fri Mar 21 23:09:31 CET 2014


Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

> Maybe the fastpath should do a strict check and not 
> be used for subclasses of dict?

This code is ancient and well-established.  IMO, nothing good can come from changing it (besides slowing down code that is already deployed and working fine).

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