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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-05-17 05:39:22 +0300
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-05-17 05:39:22 +0300
commit7dca4ee0e691dcf69bd6f4a5761366d7d11abbb3 (patch)
tree996fb9c002544597d18615f9006c3d20961bdab6
parent85129b4f7ccb977fad224af9dc452fb1e0c23868 (diff)
downloadcpython-7dca4ee0e691dcf69bd6f4a5761366d7d11abbb3.tar.gz
#12092: backport rephrasing of a paragraph in the tutorial.
-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
index de93beb244..5c7ca4e0a4 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -455,10 +455,9 @@ and of course it would print::
shopkeeper : Michael Palin
sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch
-Note that the :meth:`sort` method of the list of keyword argument names is
-called before printing the contents of the ``keywords`` dictionary; if this is
-not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined.
-
+Note that the list of keyword argument names is created by sorting the result
+of the keywords dictionary's ``keys()`` method before printing its contents;
+if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined.
.. _tut-arbitraryargs: