From 4a2282b0679bbf7b7fbd36aae1b1565145238961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Rosen Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:21:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Prefer "similar" over "equivalent" in tutorial (#125343) In the datastructures tutorial doc, some operations are described as "equivalent to" others. This has led to some user-confusion -- at least in the Discourse forums -- about cases in which the operations differ. This change doesn't systematically eliminate the word "equivalent" from the tutorial. It just substitutes "similar to" in several cases in which "equivalent to" could mislead users into expecting exact equivalence. --- Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst index 73f17adeea7..31941bc112a 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst @@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ objects: .. method:: list.append(x) :noindex: - Add an item to the end of the list. Equivalent to ``a[len(a):] = [x]``. + Add an item to the end of the list. Similar to ``a[len(a):] = [x]``. .. method:: list.extend(iterable) :noindex: - Extend the list by appending all the items from the iterable. Equivalent to + Extend the list by appending all the items from the iterable. Similar to ``a[len(a):] = iterable``. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ objects: .. method:: list.clear() :noindex: - Remove all items from the list. Equivalent to ``del a[:]``. + Remove all items from the list. Similar to ``del a[:]``. .. method:: list.index(x[, start[, end]]) @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ objects: .. method:: list.copy() :noindex: - Return a shallow copy of the list. Equivalent to ``a[:]``. + Return a shallow copy of the list. Similar to ``a[:]``. An example that uses most of the list methods::