[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Issue 21533: Dicts take iterables, not iterators. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.

[terry.reedy]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/78da27d6f28f
changeset:   90987:78da27d6f28f
branch:      2.7
parent:      90982:eabff2a97b5b
user:        Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
date:        Mon Jun 02 20:42:48 2014 -0400
summary:
  Issue 21533: Dicts take iterables, not iterators. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.

files:
  Doc/library/stdtypes.rst |  4 ++--
  Misc/ACKS                |  1 +
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1989,8 +1989,8 @@
    If no positional argument is given, an empty dictionary is created.
    If a positional argument is given and it is a mapping object, a dictionary
    is created with the same key-value pairs as the mapping object.  Otherwise,
-   the positional argument must be an :term:`iterator` object.  Each item in
-   the iterable must itself be an iterator with exactly two objects.  The
+   the positional argument must be an :term:`iterable` object.  Each item in
+   the iterable must itself be an iterable with exactly two objects.  The
    first object of each item becomes a key in the new dictionary, and the
    second object the corresponding value.  If a key occurs more than once, the
    last value for that key becomes the corresponding value in the new
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -819,6 +819,7 @@
 Nick Maclaren
 Don MacMillen
 Tomasz Maćkowiak
+Wolfgang Maier
 Steve Majewski
 Marek Majkowski
 Grzegorz Makarewicz

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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython