Commit fcf58a15 authored by Martin Panter's avatar Martin Panter

Issue #16701: Document += and *= for mutable sequences

parent 74c76c8f
......@@ -1613,8 +1613,11 @@ an arbitrary object):
| ``s.append(x)`` | same as ``s[len(s):len(s)] = | \(2) |
| | [x]`` | |
+------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+
| ``s.extend(x)`` | same as ``s[len(s):len(s)] = | \(3) |
| | x`` | |
| ``s.extend(x)`` or | for the most part the same as | \(3) |
| ``s += t`` | ``s[len(s):len(s)] = x`` | |
+------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+
| ``s *= n`` | updates *s* with its contents | \(11) |
| | repeated *n* times | |
+------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------+
| ``s.count(x)`` | return number of *i*'s for | |
| | which ``s[i] == x`` | |
......@@ -1720,6 +1723,12 @@ Notes:
:exc:`ValueError` if it can detect that the list has been mutated during a
sort.
(11)
The value *n* is an integer, or an object implementing
:meth:`~object.__index__`. Zero and negative values of *n* clear
the sequence. Items in the sequence are not copied; they are referenced
multiple times, as explained for ``s * n`` under :ref:`typesseq`.
.. _types-set:
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