[Python-checkins] bpo-32739: Show default value for rotate() (GH-5485)
Raymond Hettinger
webhook-mailer at python.org
Sat Feb 3 11:46:36 EST 2018
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/589c718a8e3bde017350f248f7f1c009240eb52b
commit: 589c718a8e3bde017350f248f7f1c009240eb52b
branch: master
author: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-02-03T08:46:28-08:00
summary:
bpo-32739: Show default value for rotate() (GH-5485)
files:
M Doc/library/collections.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index 772ff60fe983..256bf02da47c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -509,11 +509,14 @@ or subtracting from an empty counter.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
- .. method:: rotate(n)
+ .. method:: rotate(n=1)
- Rotate the deque *n* steps to the right. If *n* is negative, rotate to
- the left. Rotating one step to the right is equivalent to:
- ``d.appendleft(d.pop())``.
+ Rotate the deque *n* steps to the right. If *n* is negative, rotate
+ to the left.
+
+ When the deque is empty, rotating one step to the right is equivalent
+ to ``d.appendleft(d.pop())``, and rotating one step to the left is
+ equivalent to ``d.append(d.popleft())``.
Deque objects also provide one read-only attribute:
More information about the Python-checkins
mailing list