[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: It can be closed now. Thanks for the reminder. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Raymond, since this has been merged to default too in e163c13b941c, can the issue be closed or is there something else left to do? -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker

[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6ec04c5dae6e by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.3': Issue 17920: Fix-up terminology in the set documentation http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6ec04c5dae6e -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a285ce18bd55 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '2.7': Issue 17920: Fix-up terminology in the set documentation http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a285ce18bd55 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

Changes by Raymond Hettinger : -- assignee: docs@python -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list ma

[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

abcdef added the comment: Another small thing: "For example, any two disjoint sets are not equal and are not subsets of each other, so all of the following return False: ab." It should be "any two nonempty disjoint sets". -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17920] Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"

New submission from abcdef: The set documentation [http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/stdtypes.html] states "The subset and equality comparisons do not generalize to a complete ordering function. For example, any two disjoint sets are not equal and are not subsets of each other..." Could "com