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authorAndrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2014-02-15 22:05:26 (GMT)
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mapping rather than a sequence because the lookups use arbitrary
:term:`immutable` keys rather than integers.
+ The :class:`collections.abc.Sequence` abstract base class
+ defines a much richer interface that goes beyond just
+ :meth:`__getitem__` and :meth:`__len__`, adding :meth:`count`,
+ :meth:`index`, :meth:`__contains__`, and
+ :meth:`__reversed__`. Types that implement this expanded
+ interface can be registered explicitly using
+ :func:`~abc.register`.
+
slice
An object usually containing a portion of a :term:`sequence`. A slice is
created using the subscript notation, ``[]`` with colons between numbers