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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2006-02-25 22:38:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2006-02-25 22:38:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 1968ad32cd7f46d9bb64826672ef68cdaee35288 (patch) | |
| tree | c46db5a446d9de18fb8436408ec29d2111a2f5ad /Doc/lib/libcopy.tex | |
| parent | ab51f5f24d6f6edef5e8fac5e31b2e4ac0cbdbac (diff) | |
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- Patch 1433928:
- The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
- dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
KeyError.
- Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcopy.tex b/Doc/lib/libcopy.tex index d73d6fd..5964187 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcopy.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcopy.tex @@ -67,9 +67,12 @@ set of components copied. \end{itemize} -This version does not copy types like module, class, function, method, +This module does not copy types like module, method, stack trace, stack frame, file, socket, window, array, or any similar -types. +types. It does ``copy'' functions and classes (shallow and deeply), +by returning the original object unchanged; this is compatible with +the way these are treated by the \module{pickle} module. +\versionchanged[Added copying functions]{2.5} Classes can use the same interfaces to control copying that they use to control pickling. See the description of module |