# HG changeset patch
# User fschwarz
# Date 1315038703 0
# Node ID 86524be05b60b8e25b5d2448279f640e35bc6381
# Parent  8831b754f81e01720eb2c6618b690b405b5e79d4
fix docstring for babel.messages.extract() so it mentions the correct return type

diff --git a/babel/messages/extract.py b/babel/messages/extract.py
--- a/babel/messages/extract.py
+++ b/babel/messages/extract.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
     """Extract messages from the given file-like object using the specified
     extraction method.
 
-    This function returns a list of tuples of the form:
+    This function returns tuples of the form:
 
         ``(lineno, message, comments)``
 
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@
     :param options: a dictionary of additional options (optional)
     :param strip_comment_tags: a flag that if set to `True` causes all comment
                                tags to be removed from the collected comments.
-    :return: the list of extracted messages
-    :rtype: `list`
+    :return: an iterator over ``(lineno, message, comments)`` tuples
+    :rtype: `iterator`
     :raise ValueError: if the extraction method is not registered
     """
     func = None