bpo-21056: Document return type of next method of csv reader (#146)

python · May 23, 2017 · d618c8c · d618c8c
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@@ -401,8 +401,10 @@ Reader objects (:class:`DictReader` instances and objects returned by the
 
 .. method:: csvreader.__next__()
 
-   Return the next row of the reader's iterable object as a list, parsed according
-   to the current dialect.  Usually you should call this as ``next(reader)``.
+   Return the next row of the reader's iterable object as a list (if the object
+   was returned from :func:`reader`) or a dict (if it is a :class:`DictReader`
+   instance), parsed according to the current dialect.  Usually you should call
+   this as ``next(reader)``.
 
 
 Reader objects have the following public attributes: