[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

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[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset e2a30cd35b95dad55aea10347655f246348d1951 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.6': [3.6] bpo-27385: Clarify docstring for groupby() (GH-3738) (#3744) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e2a30cd35b95dad55aea10347655f24634

[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

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[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 49392c63a243052c8013bef80d35202bb6d7c404 by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'master': bpo-27385: Clarify docstring for groupby() (#3738) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/49392c63a243052c8013bef80d35202bb6d7c404 -- ___

[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

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[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

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[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: While you're fixing, the docstring should say "groupby(iterable, key=None)", not "groupby(iterable[, keyfunc])"; the functions accepts the key function by name, and the name is key, not keyfunc. And it can be passed explicitly as None (equivalent to not passin

[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

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[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

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[issue27385] itertools.groupby has misleading doc string

New submission from Grant Mathews: The itertools.groupby function is generally well-documented, but the fact that it only groups consecutive occurrences of keys is not mentioned in the doc string, which is where that information is most needed. -- assignee: docs@python components: Docu