From: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:50:52 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Fix argument order in multinomial() example (gh-132557)
X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0b1~469
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=818b6a9eadb7c606bc3faab91de4a76bde66a9ae;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix argument order in multinomial() example (gh-132557)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 61e413b63cdf..438f3db60c39 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -1129,8 +1129,8 @@ The following recipes have a more mathematical flavor:
 
    def multinomial(*counts):
        "Number of distinct arrangements of a multiset."
-       # Counter('abracadabra').values() -> 5 2 1 1 2
-       # multinomial(5, 2, 1, 1, 2) → 83160
+       # Counter('abracadabra').values() → 5 2 2 1 1
+       # multinomial(5, 2, 2, 1, 1) → 83160
        return prod(map(comb, accumulate(counts), counts))
 
 
@@ -1736,7 +1736,7 @@ The following recipes have a more mathematical flavor:
     >>> ''.join(it)
     'DEF1'
 
-    >>> multinomial(5, 2, 1, 1, 2)
+    >>> multinomial(5, 2, 2, 1, 1)
     83160
     >>> word = 'coffee'
     >>> multinomial(*Counter(word).values()) == len(set(permutations(word)))