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| author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 07:36:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 07:36:59 (GMT) |
| commit | d1ca4f9dc6f28bcda09576e6148200b82c3cedae (patch) | |
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Merge fixes for #12256 and typos from 3.2
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 358f40e..c66aac1 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ Glossary Abstract base classes complement :term:`duck-typing` by providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like :func:`hasattr` would be clumsy or subtly wrong (for example with - :ref:`magic methods <special-lookup>`). Python comes with many built-in ABCs for + :ref:`magic methods <special-lookup>`). ABCs introduce virtual + subclasses, which are classes that don't inherit from a class but are + still recognized by :func:`isinstance` and :func:`issubclass`; see the + :mod:`abc` module documentation. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for data structures (in the :mod:`collections.abc` module), numbers (in the :mod:`numbers` module), streams (in the :mod:`io` module), import finders and loaders (in the :mod:`importlib.abc` module). You can create your own |