On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 09:18:09PM -0800, Brendan Barnwell wrote: > >Yes it is documented: > > > > help(dict.update) > > > >and it was intentionally the inspiration for the behaviour of dict > >augmented assignment. > > I see. It's rather disturbing that that isn't mentioned in the docs > on python.org.
"Disturbing"? It's an oversight, not a conspiracy :-) Just submit a PR and I'm sure it will be accepted. > >If you want to argue it's not a protocol, just an interface, okay, it's > >an interface. That's a difference that makes no difference. > > No, it does make a difference. What you're describing is the > interface to a single existing type. It's part of the MutableMapping ABC, although you need to read the source code of that (or the doctsring) to see it: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/_collections_abc.py -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/BIUZTVKNPG74ADCLTFQWQVBGWLN77VUQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
