Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
The "sequence" parameter name is an unfortunate hold-over from olden times were
many things that accepted iterables were marked as taking sequences.
This was fixed in Python 3, but it can't be changed in Py2.7 because the
parameter name is exposed as a keyword argument:
>>> list(enumerate(sequence='abc', start=2))
[(2, 'a'), (3, 'b'), (4, 'c')]
The rest docs for Python 2.7 read just fine, "Return an enumerate object.
sequence must be a sequence, an iterator, or some other object which supports
iteration." I think that is sufficient to clarify any confusion caused by the
unfortunate choice of keyword argument name.
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assignee: docs@python -> rhettinger
nosy: +rhettinger
resolution: -> rejected
status: open -> closed
versions: -Python 3.4, Python 3.5
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