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Author mdk
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Date 2020-10-04.16:20:21
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As reported by Graham Ewart on docs@,

in https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#common-sequence-operations:

s * n or n * s | equivalent to adding s to itself n times

is badly worded. In fact it's more like n-1 times, but yet it's not adding s to itself.

I'd go for "n times the s sequence" or "n copies of the s sequence" instead, which both avoid the "n-1" and the "to itself" parts.
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