[issue37670] Description of UserDict is misleading

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The term "mapping" is in lowercase and refers to the generic concept of a mapping as defined in the glossary. This is distinct from the capital letter classes "Mapping" and "MutableMapping" as provided in the collections.abc module. It is the former

[issue37670] Description of UserDict is misleading

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[issue37670] Description of UserDict is misleading

New submission from Caleb Donovick : The documentation for collections.UserDict states "In addition to supporting the methods and operations of mappings, UserDict instances provide the following attribute: ..." This however is misleading as it supports the operations of mutable mappings.