From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:23:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Minor doc improvement (GH-10341) X-Git-Tag: v3.7.4rc1~289 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e16599c48ce3b99e4c3aaf0cb053cd01b50e380f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Minor doc improvement (GH-10341) Change "star-operator" to "* operator". (cherry picked from commit dfd775a0b1aee51d842b20cdebd97cc52c0b32e7) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino --- diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index 1616585b654b..9f47e8978da3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ function: >>> getattr(p, 'x') 11 -To convert a dictionary to a named tuple, use the double-star-operator +To convert a dictionary to a named tuple, use the ``**`` operator (as described in :ref:`tut-unpacking-arguments`): >>> d = {'x': 11, 'y': 22} diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index 905734539c68..abf163d232c5 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ The reverse situation occurs when the arguments are already in a list or tuple but need to be unpacked for a function call requiring separate positional arguments. For instance, the built-in :func:`range` function expects separate *start* and *stop* arguments. If they are not available separately, write the -function call with the ``*``\ -operator to unpack the arguments out of a list +function call with the ``*`` operator to unpack the arguments out of a list or tuple:: >>> list(range(3, 6)) # normal call with separate arguments @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ or tuple:: single: **; in function calls In the same fashion, dictionaries can deliver keyword arguments with the -``**``\ -operator:: +``**`` operator:: >>> def parrot(voltage, state='a stiff', action='voom'): ... print("-- This parrot wouldn't", action, end=' ')