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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 18:25:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-17422: slightly more precise language (GH-18682)
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bpo-17422: slightly more precise language (GH-18682)

(cherry picked from commit e59334ebc9308b0f3ad048ef293c6b49e6456d1a)

Co-authored-by: Caleb Donovick <cdonovick@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index b682465d3ddc..1212dc61f2d2 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ namespace returned by ``__prepare__`` is passed in to ``__new__``, but when
 the final class object is created the namespace is copied into a new ``dict``.
 
 If the metaclass has no ``__prepare__`` attribute, then the class namespace
-is initialised as an empty :func:`dict`.
+is initialised as an empty ordered mapping.
 
 .. seealso::
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-27-17-35-27.bpo-17422.eS1hVh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-27-17-35-27.bpo-17422.eS1hVh.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bbec5ec0eee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-27-17-35-27.bpo-17422.eS1hVh.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The language reference no longer restricts default class namespaces to dicts
+only.