bpo-17422: slightly more precise language (GH-18682)

miss-islington · cdonovick · web-flow · commit f1b79645cf18 · 2020-03-06T10:25:51.000-08:00
(cherry picked from commit e59334e) Co-authored-by: Caleb Donovick <cdonovick@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ namespace returned by ``__prepare__`` is passed in to ``__new__``, but when
 the final class object is created the namespace is copied into a new ``dict``.
 
 If the metaclass has no ``__prepare__`` attribute, then the class namespace
-is initialised as an empty :func:`dict`.
+is initialised as an empty ordered mapping.
 
 .. seealso::
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-27-17-35-27.bpo-17422.eS1hVh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-27-17-35-27.bpo-17422.eS1hVh.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The language reference no longer restricts default class namespaces to dicts
+only.

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	`2`	`+only.`