[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: There isn't much defense against an overly literal reading of the docs. Both ``s.pop([i])`` and ``s.pop(i=-1)`` fail (the latter because pop doesn't take key word arguments and the docstring calls it index. Also, you would have to define *s* and *i*.

[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

Eric V. Smith added the comment: I don't feel particularly strongly about it. It's mildly more confusing in the 3.x docs than 2.7 because it's the only use in that section of an optional argument. I disagree that s.pop(i) is wrong, since it agrees with the Results column. But I agree it's

[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

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[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

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[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

Eric V. Smith added the comment: It's trying to say that i is optional, as stated in the footnote. I agree it would be better written as s.pop(i), since square brackets are otherwise used in that section as indexing operators. But the footnote should stay, explaining what happens if you omit

[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

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[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

New submission from eimista: In section (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/stdtypes.html#mutable-sequence-types) written s.pop([i]). But this syntax doesn't work. Maybe the correct notation will be s.pop(i)? -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 244365 nosy:

[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

Yury Selivanov added the comment: I think it should be changed to `pop(i=-1)`. -- nosy: +yselivanov ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24323 ___

[issue24323] Typo in Mutable Sequence Types documentation.

Eric V. Smith added the comment: s.pop(i=-1) doesn't actually work, but I guess it gets the point across. For 2.7 it's even more confusing, since it includes: s.index(x[, i[, j]]) and s.sort([cmp[, key[, reverse]]]) I'd suggest not changing the 2.7 docs. --