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  r71607 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-14 23:23:09 +0200 (Di, 14 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  tupel -> tuple
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  r71653 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-04-16 20:16:10 +0200 (Do, 16 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Clarify the behavior of any() and all() with an empty iterable.
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  r71696 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-18 10:26:21 +0200 (Sa, 18 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  "not subscriptable" should be a bit more understandable than "unsubscriptable".
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  r71771 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-04-20 20:23:57 +0200 (Mo, 20 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r71786 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-21 20:23:08 +0200 (Di, 21 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5757: fix copy-paste error in notify().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index c79a8c4..5ea0489 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
 
 .. function:: all(iterable)
 
-   Return True if all elements of the *iterable* are true. Equivalent to::
+   Return True if all elements of the *iterable* are true (or if the iterable
+   is empty).  Equivalent to::
 
       def all(iterable):
           for element in iterable:
@@ -28,7 +29,8 @@
 
 .. function:: any(iterable)
 
-   Return True if any element of the *iterable* is true. Equivalent to::
+   Return True if any element of the *iterable* is true.  If the iterable
+   is empty, return False.  Equivalent to::
 
       def any(iterable):
           for element in iterable: