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| author | Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> | 2014-03-16 04:13:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> | 2014-03-16 04:13:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 3732ed24145c1ac77e99bcf85bccda3af095e696 (patch) | |
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Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 2f658ac..f71a1f7 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -783,6 +783,14 @@ Glossary 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`. + single dispatch A form of :term:`generic function` dispatch where the implementation is chosen based on the type of a single argument. |