Issue 21533: Dicts take iterables, not iterators. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.

terryjreedy · terryjreedy · commit b52f8767679a · 2014-06-02T20:42:56.000-04:00
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -3031,8 +3031,8 @@ pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack': 4098, 'sjoerd': 4127}`` or ``{4098:
    If no positional argument is given, an empty dictionary is created.
    If a positional argument is given and it is a mapping object, a dictionary
    is created with the same key-value pairs as the mapping object.  Otherwise,
-   the positional argument must be an :term:`iterator` object.  Each item in
-   the iterable must itself be an iterator with exactly two objects.  The
+   the positional argument must be an :term:`iterable` object.  Each item in
+   the iterable must itself be an iterable with exactly two objects.  The
    first object of each item becomes a key in the new dictionary, and the
    second object the corresponding value.  If a key occurs more than once, the
    last value for that key becomes the corresponding value in the new
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ Tim MacKenzie
 Nick Maclaren
 Don MacMillen
 Tomasz Maćkowiak
+Wolfgang Maier
 Steve Majewski
 Marek Majkowski
 Grzegorz Makarewicz
