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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-03-27 19:15:11 (GMT)
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bpo-40045: Make "dunder" method documentation easier to locate (GH-19153) (GH-19198)
* issue 40045 * Update lexical_analysis.rst Make "dunder" method documentation easier(GH-19153) Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <33177550+nanjekyejoannah@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 5f9c131c099d6675d1a9d0228497865488afd548) Co-authored-by: Javad Mokhtari <javadmokhtari@outlook.com> Co-authored-by: Javad Mokhtari <javadmokhtari@outlook.com>
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information on this convention.
``__*__``
- System-defined names. These names are defined by the interpreter and its
- implementation (including the standard library). Current system names are
- discussed in the :ref:`specialnames` section and elsewhere. More will likely
- be defined in future versions of Python. *Any* use of ``__*__`` names, in
- any context, that does not follow explicitly documented use, is subject to
+ System-defined names, informally known as "dunder" names. These names are
+ defined by the interpreter and its implementation (including the standard library).
+ Current system names are discussed in the :ref:`specialnames` section and elsewhere.
+ More will likely be defined in future versions of Python. *Any* use of ``__*__`` names,
+ in any context, that does not follow explicitly documented use, is subject to
breakage without warning.
``__*``