From bca1169e94f81b140629ae69ce2ab33628d26b08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:19:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #8030: make builtin type docstrings more consistent: use
 "iterable" instead of "seq(uence)", use "new" to show that set() always
 returns a new object.

---
 Objects/dictobject.c | 4 ++--
 Objects/listobject.c | 2 +-
 Objects/setobject.c  | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index b20d6f36e9a..517c20c2fc5 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -2330,9 +2330,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(dictionary_doc,
 "dict() -> new empty dictionary.\n"
 "dict(mapping) -> new dictionary initialized from a mapping object's\n"
 "    (key, value) pairs.\n"
-"dict(seq) -> new dictionary initialized as if via:\n"
+"dict(iterable) -> new dictionary initialized as if via:\n"
 "    d = {}\n"
-"    for k, v in seq:\n"
+"    for k, v in iterable:\n"
 "        d[k] = v\n"
 "dict(**kwargs) -> new dictionary initialized with the name=value pairs\n"
 "    in the keyword argument list.  For example:  dict(one=1, two=2)");
diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index c55524d5b1f..d7103744249 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -2537,7 +2537,7 @@ static PySequenceMethods list_as_sequence = {
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(list_doc,
 "list() -> new list\n"
-"list(sequence) -> new list initialized from sequence's items");
+"list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items");
 
 
 static PyObject *
diff --git a/Objects/setobject.c b/Objects/setobject.c
index 81fd31580e4..45a9afc2dc7 100644
--- a/Objects/setobject.c
+++ b/Objects/setobject.c
@@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ static PyNumberMethods set_as_number = {
 };
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(set_doc,
-"set(iterable) --> set object\n\
+"set(iterable) -> new set object\n\
 \n\
 Build an unordered collection of unique elements.");
 
@@ -2200,7 +2200,7 @@ static PyNumberMethods frozenset_as_number = {
 };
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(frozenset_doc,
-"frozenset(iterable) --> frozenset object\n\
+"frozenset(iterable) -> frozenset object\n\
 \n\
 Build an immutable unordered collection of unique elements.");