Skip to content

bpo-34123: Fix missed documentation update for dict.popitem(). #8292

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
rhettinger merged 2 commits into from
Jul 17, 2018
Merged

bpo-34123: Fix missed documentation update for dict.popitem(). #8292

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
dd26bff
Fix missed documentation update for dict.popitem().
rhettinger Jul 16, 2018
76aac3f
Add a versionchanged message.
rhettinger Jul 16, 2018
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -4220,12 +4220,18 @@ pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack': 4098, 'sjoerd': 4127}`` or ``{4098:

.. method:: popitem()

Remove and return an arbitrary ``(key, value)`` pair from the dictionary.
Remove and return a ``(key, value)`` pair from the dictionary.
Pairs are returned in :abbr:`LIFO (last-in, first-out)` order.

:meth:`popitem` is useful to destructively iterate over a dictionary, as
often used in set algorithms. If the dictionary is empty, calling
:meth:`popitem` raises a :exc:`KeyError`.

.. versionchanged:: 3.7

LIFO order is now guaranteed. In prior versions, :meth:`popitem` would
return an arbitrary key/value pair.

.. method:: setdefault(key[, default])

If *key* is in the dictionary, return its value. If not, insert *key*
Expand Down