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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-03-27 01:26:14 (GMT)
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bpo-33832: Add "magic method" glossary entry (GH-7630)
(cherry picked from commit f760610bddd7e8f8ac0914d5d59ef806bc16a73b) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
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@@ -490,6 +490,11 @@ Glossary
:meth:`load_module`. A loader is typically returned by a
:term:`finder`. See :pep:`302` for details.
+ magic method
+ .. index:: pair: magic; method
+
+ An informal synonym for :term:`special method`.
+
mapping
A container object that supports arbitrary key lookups and implements the
methods specified in the :class:`~collections.Mapping` or
@@ -698,6 +703,8 @@ Glossary
versions, :meth:`__getslice__` and :meth:`__setslice__`).
special method
+ .. index:: pair: special; method
+
A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain
operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting
and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in
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+Add glossary entry for 'magic method'.