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.. sectionauthor:: Georg Brandl
.. much of the content adapted from docstrings
-This module provides the infrastructure for defining abstract base classes
-(ABCs) in Python, as outlined in :pep:`3119`; see the PEP for why this was added
-to Python. (See also :pep:`3141` and the :mod:`numbers` module regarding a type
-hierarchy for numbers based on ABCs.)
+This module provides the infrastructure for defining :term:`abstract base
+classes` (ABCs) in Python, as outlined in :pep:`3119`; see the PEP for why this
+was added to Python. (See also :pep:`3141` and the :mod:`numbers` module
+regarding a type hierarchy for numbers based on ABCs.)
The :mod:`collections` module has some concrete classes that derive from
ABCs; these can, of course, be further derived. In addition the