diff --git a/doc/templates.rst b/doc/templates.rst
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--- a/doc/templates.rst
+++ b/doc/templates.rst
@@ -1216,8 +1216,9 @@ You can skip values by leaving a slot empty:
 
 Sequence destructuring also works with iterators (any ``Traversable``
 value). Values are extracted in iteration order and keys are ignored. The
-iterator is consumed lazily: only as many values as there are variables are
-fetched, and the expression returns the iterator itself.
+iterator is consumed lazily: only as many values as there are slots in the
+pattern are fetched (an empty slot consumes a value too), and the expression
+returns the iterator itself.
 
 Object Destructuring
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~