From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:08:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue 4922: Incorrect comments for MutableSet.add() and MutableSet.discard().
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~2304
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d21d50c10d1041f56d6f089d66a98b2bbf55e12;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue 4922: Incorrect comments for MutableSet.add() and MutableSet.discard().

Needs to be backported to 2.6 and forward ported to 3.0 and 3.1.
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diff --git a/Lib/_abcoll.py b/Lib/_abcoll.py
index a5fee081df56..38b44a589501 100644
--- a/Lib/_abcoll.py
+++ b/Lib/_abcoll.py
@@ -249,12 +249,12 @@ class MutableSet(Set):
 
     @abstractmethod
     def add(self, value):
-        """Return True if it was added, False if already there."""
+        """Add an element."""
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     @abstractmethod
     def discard(self, value):
-        """Return True if it was deleted, False if not there."""
+        """Remove an element.  Do not raise an exception if absent."""
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     def remove(self, value):