bpo-28617 Fixed docs inaccuracies about the types that support membership tests (GH-9086)

wimglenn · miss-islington · commit 08bcf647d8a9 · 2018-09-11T10:44:52.000-07:00
https://bugs.python.org/issue28617
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ exception.
    operator: not in
 
 Two more operations with the same syntactic priority, :keyword:`in` and
-:keyword:`not in`, are supported only by sequence types (below).
-
+:keyword:`not in`, are supported by types that are :term:`iterable` or
+implement the :meth:`__contains__` method.
 
 .. _typesnumeric:
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-09-06-22-39-47.bpo-28617.MjnJLz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-09-06-22-39-47.bpo-28617.MjnJLz.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixed info in the stdtypes docs concerning the types that support membership
+tests.

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