[Python-checkins] Change list to view object (GH-93661)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/58277de8e651df287ceae053eeb321c0f8406a1b
commit: 58277de8e651df287ceae053eeb321c0f8406a1b
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-06-11T04:13:38-07:00
summary:

Change list to view object (GH-93661)

(cherry picked from commit 5d8e7a124098add18a17b12270a66ca26b8cc058)

Co-authored-by: Pamela Fox <pamela.fox at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/symtable.rst
M Lib/symtable.py

diff --git a/Doc/library/symtable.rst b/Doc/library/symtable.rst
index e364232247c20..362220dc71a26 100644
--- a/Doc/library/symtable.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/symtable.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ Examining Symbol Tables
 
    .. method:: get_identifiers()
 
-      Return a list of names of symbols in this table.
+      Return a view object containing the names of symbols in the table.
+      See the :ref:`documentation of view objects <dict-views>`.
 
    .. method:: lookup(name)
 
diff --git a/Lib/symtable.py b/Lib/symtable.py
index 98db1e2557d37..e11e5fffc4e1b 100644
--- a/Lib/symtable.py
+++ b/Lib/symtable.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def has_children(self):
         return bool(self._table.children)
 
     def get_identifiers(self):
-        """Return a list of names of symbols in the table.
+        """Return a view object containing the names of symbols in the table.
         """
         return self._table.symbols.keys()