Docs: Clarify the before_and_after() example (GH-28458)

diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index ac6b354138b6e243ebc69e7ccb80cf6fbff0b60b..61d8b869711fa49b008c0ae6881697491d78b31c 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -859,10 +859,11 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
        """ Variant of takewhile() that allows complete
            access to the remainder of the iterator.
 
-           >>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, 'ABCdEfGhI')
-           >>> str.join('', all_upper)
+           >>> it = iter('ABCdEfGhI')
+           >>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, it)
+           >>> ''.join(all_upper)
            'ABC'
-           >>> str.join('', remainder)
+           >>> ''.join(remainder)     # takewhile() would lose the 'd'
            'dEfGhI'
 
            Note that the first iterator must be fully

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
index db6a98351bbd9bd79b20a8999e83b4f0b4f06a6b..4e1dd0255086b52d8d50530f5daf0a547e883357 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -2646,10 +2646,11 @@ True
 >>> list(odds)
 [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
 
->>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, 'ABCdEfGhI')
->>> str.join('', all_upper)
+>>> it = iter('ABCdEfGhI')
+>>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, it)
+>>> ''.join(all_upper)
 'ABC'
->>> str.join('', remainder)
+>>> ''.join(remainder)
 'dEfGhI'
 
 >>> list(powerset([1,2,3]))