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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-06 09:17:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-06 09:17:24 (GMT) |
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Merged revisions 82757-82758,82760-82764 via svnmerge from
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r82757 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 10:58:37 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix markup.
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r82758 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:23:40 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Emphasize role of count for Pascal string.
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r82760 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:39:57 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary.
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r82761 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:40:13 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#1434090: properly append child in expatbuilder doctype handler.
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r82762 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:51:06 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8338: fix outdated class name.
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r82763 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:01:34 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8456: fix signature of sqlite3.connect().
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r82764 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:20:38 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8564: update docs on integrating doctest/unittest with unittest(2) test discovery.
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 9a340fc..dceeac8 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ Glossary object. duck-typing - A pythonic programming style which determines an object's type by inspection - of its method or attribute signature rather than by explicit relationship - to some type object ("If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it + A programming style which does not look at an object's type to determine + if it has the right interface; instead, the method or attribute is simply + called or used ("If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.") By emphasizing interfaces rather than specific types, well-designed code improves its flexibility by allowing polymorphic substitution. Duck-typing avoids tests using :func:`type` or |