From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:02:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document default value for fillvalue
X-Git-Tag: v2.6b3~232
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5255cba4bc64c1571a167ce2b297f19ff0238899;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

document default value for fillvalue
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diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 5d3593e52cac..13d3147827b5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -368,9 +368,10 @@ loops that truncate the stream.
           except IndexError:
               pass
 
-   If one of the iterables is potentially infinite, then the :func:`izip_longest`
-   function should be wrapped with something that limits the number of calls (for
-   example :func:`islice` or :func:`takewhile`).
+   If one of the iterables is potentially infinite, then the
+   :func:`izip_longest` function should be wrapped with something that limits
+   the number of calls (for example :func:`islice` or :func:`takewhile`).  If
+   not specified, *fillvalue* defaults to ``None``.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.6