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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2011-04-20 23:27:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2011-04-20 23:27:32 (GMT) |
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glossary entry for struct sequence
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index ec8af62..4e425c3 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -580,6 +580,14 @@ Glossary an :term:`expression` or a one of several constructs with a keyword, such as :keyword:`if`, :keyword:`while` or :keyword:`for`. + struct sequence + A tuple with named elements. Struct sequences expose an interface similiar + to :term:`named tuple` in that elements can either be accessed either by + index or as an attribute. However, they do not have any of the named tuple + methods like :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._make` or + :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._asdict`. Examples of struct sequences + include :data:`sys.float_info` and the return value of :func:`os.stat`. + triple-quoted string A string which is bound by three instances of either a quotation mark (") or an apostrophe ('). While they don't provide any functionality |