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| author | Roger Iyengar <ri@rogeriyengar.com> | 2020-06-23 02:16:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-06-23 02:16:00 (GMT) |
| commit | a16d6970496cae5ecab5aaea2b416a4b77527cc2 (patch) | |
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Improve asyncio.loop.call_soon() documentation (GH-20883)
* Add a glossary entry for the term "callback"
* Link to it in loop.call_soon() and in the "Concurrency and Multithreading" section
Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 6189cb0..e997d36 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ Glossary A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for :ref:`the dis module <bytecodes>`. + callback + A subroutine function which is passed as an argument to be executed at + some point in the future. + class A template for creating user-defined objects. Class definitions normally contain method definitions which operate on instances of the |