From a74e5c809b3b13607bbbbfbbb6d789fb0d35a0e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:21:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 17920: Fix-up terminology in the set documentation --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index d4bf4484825b..76345e58f7f8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1849,8 +1849,8 @@ The constructors for both classes work the same: based on their members. For example, ``set('abc') == frozenset('abc')`` returns ``True`` and so does ``set('abc') in set([frozenset('abc')])``. - The subset and equality comparisons do not generalize to a complete ordering - function. For example, any two disjoint sets are not equal and are not + The subset and equality comparisons do not generalize to a total ordering + function. For example, any two non-empty disjoint sets are not equal and are not subsets of each other, so *all* of the following return ``False``: ``ab``. Accordingly, sets do not implement the :meth:`__cmp__` method. -- 2.47.3