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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-11-06 18:50:18 (GMT) |
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[doc] bpo-45680: Improve glossary entry for generic types (GH-29388) (GH-29448)
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
(cherry picked from commit 77a2c77c84d2ead2d19f96df862c119308e90071)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 96d33ac..da9dc9c 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -485,12 +485,13 @@ Glossary :func:`functools.singledispatch` decorator, and :pep:`443`. generic type - A :term:`type` that can be parameterized; typically a container like - :class:`list`. Used for :term:`type hints <type hint>` and + A :term:`type` that can be parameterized; typically a + :ref:`container class<sequence-types>` such as :class:`list` or + :class:`dict`. Used for :term:`type hints <type hint>` and :term:`annotations <annotation>`. - See :pep:`483` for more details, and :mod:`typing` or - :ref:`generic alias type <types-genericalias>` for its uses. + For more details, see :ref:`generic alias types<types-genericalias>`, + :pep:`483`, :pep:`484`, :pep:`585`, and the :mod:`typing` module. GIL See :term:`global interpreter lock`. |