[issue4243] has_key doc could be clearer
Martin v. Löwis
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Sat Nov 1 20:42:02 CET 2008
Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
>> Terry's and Martin' example sentences are transferable to that.
>> However, the actual sentence was
>> "dict.has_key(key) is equivalent to key in d, but deprecated."
> The sentence being changed was perfectly and mathematically correct.
I'm not so sure about that anymore. Reading the post in
http://www.englishforums.com/English/RepetitionSubjectPronoun/cqjlw/post.htm
it now seems to me that the part after the comma is a separate sentence,
and both the subject pronoun and the verb are omitted (as an ellipsis).
So the full sentence would indeed read
"dict.has_key(key) is equivalent to key in d, but it is deprecated."
which then would be ambiguous as discussed.
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