The key-value pairs can be lists or tuples or any iterable.
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
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--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@
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The :func:`dict` constructor builds dictionaries directly from sequences of
-key-value pairs stored as tuples. ::
+key-value pairs::
>>> dict([('sape', 4139), ('guido', 4127), ('jack', 4098)])
{'sape': 4139, 'jack': 4098, 'guido': 4127}