[3.14] Docs: Improve example for itertools.batched() (GH-136775) (#136778)

miss-islington · RafaelWO · web-flow · commit aeeacdb8b562 · 2025-07-19T09:36:35.000Z
Docs: Improve example for ``itertools.batched()`` (GH-136775) The current example `batched('ABCDEFG', n=3) → ABC DEF G` can confuse readers because both, the size of the tuples and the number of tuples are 3. By using a batch size of n=2, it is clearer that the `n` argument refers to the size of the resulting tuples. I.e. the new example is: `batched('ABCDEFG', n=2) → AB CD EF G` (cherry picked from commit 3eecc72) Co-authored-by: RafaelWO <38643099+RafaelWO@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Iterator            Arguments               Results
 Iterator                        Arguments                       Results                                             Example
 ============================    ============================    =================================================   =============================================================
 :func:`accumulate`              p [,func]                       p0, p0+p1, p0+p1+p2, ...                            ``accumulate([1,2,3,4,5]) → 1 3 6 10 15``
-:func:`batched`                 p, n                            (p0, p1, ..., p_n-1), ...                           ``batched('ABCDEFG', n=3) → ABC DEF G``
+:func:`batched`                 p, n                            (p0, p1, ..., p_n-1), ...                           ``batched('ABCDEFG', n=2) → AB CD EF G``
 :func:`chain`                   p, q, ...                       p0, p1, ... plast, q0, q1, ...                      ``chain('ABC', 'DEF') → A B C D E F``
 :func:`chain.from_iterable`     iterable                        p0, p1, ... plast, q0, q1, ...                      ``chain.from_iterable(['ABC', 'DEF']) → A B C D E F``
 :func:`compress`                data, selectors                 (d[0] if s[0]), (d[1] if s[1]), ...                 ``compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) → A C E F``
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ loops that truncate the stream.
    Roughly equivalent to::
 
       def batched(iterable, n, *, strict=False):
-          # batched('ABCDEFG', 3) → ABC DEF G
+          # batched('ABCDEFG', 2) → AB CD EF G
           if n < 1:
               raise ValueError('n must be at least one')
           iterator = iter(iterable)
