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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:18:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-28617 Fixed docs inaccuracies about the types that support membership tests ... 
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bpo-28617 Fixed docs inaccuracies about the types that support membership tests (GH-9086)


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(cherry picked from commit 08bcf647d8a92e4bd47531588b284c6820b7a7ef)

Co-authored-by: wim glenn <wim.glenn@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 0172d34ade6c..6de7e1a2df5a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ exception.
    operator: not in
 
 Two more operations with the same syntactic priority, :keyword:`in` and
-:keyword:`not in`, are supported only by sequence types (below).
-
+:keyword:`not in`, are supported by types that are :term:`iterable` or
+implement the :meth:`__contains__` method.
 
 .. _typesnumeric:
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-09-06-22-39-47.bpo-28617.MjnJLz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-09-06-22-39-47.bpo-28617.MjnJLz.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..281afad71d27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-09-06-22-39-47.bpo-28617.MjnJLz.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixed info in the stdtypes docs concerning the types that support membership
+tests.