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| author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 07:15:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 07:15:47 (GMT) |
| commit | e0054c51c7337354e415deb5b1a3d17778f42b72 (patch) | |
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Link isinstance/issubclass to the ABC glossary entry (#12256)
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 41228cd..37fa9b0 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 <new-style-special-lookup>`). Python comes with many built-in ABCs for + :ref:`magic methods <new-style-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` module), numbers (in the :mod:`numbers` module), and streams (in the :mod:`io` module). You can create your own ABCs with the :mod:`abc` module. |