Commit cbac8ce5 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Fixup docstrings for merge().

parent 382abeff
......@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ timestamped entries from multiple log files). Returns an iterator over
over the sorted values.
Similar to \code{sorted(itertools.chain(*iterables))} but returns an iterable,
does not pull the data into memory all at once, and reduces the number of
comparisons by assuming that each of the input streams is already sorted.
does not pull the data into memory all at once, and assumes that each of the
input streams is already sorted (smallest to largest).
\versionadded{2.6}
\end{funcdesc}
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......@@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ def merge(*iterables):
'''Merge multiple sorted inputs into a single sorted output.
Similar to sorted(itertools.chain(*iterables)) but returns an iterable,
does not pull the data into memory all at once, and reduces the number
of comparisons by assuming that each of the input streams is already sorted.
does not pull the data into memory all at once, and assumes that each of
the input streams is already sorted (smallest to largest).
>>> list(merge([1,3,5,7], [0,2,4,8], [5,10,15,20], [], [25]))
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25]
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