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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2007-11-02 23:46:40 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2007-11-02 23:46:40 (GMT) |
commit | 2cc30daa863dfc73dba3f60d0102685949538624 (patch) | |
tree | 5fd1e2305c859529049b72ae1da1d0ec86b4b712 /Doc/library/difflib.rst | |
parent | e845c0f92244ad45a204420e23ebeb53c1a9bd79 (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 58742-58816 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r58745 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 10:19:33 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
#1364: os.lstat is available on Windows too, as an alias to os.stat.
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r58750 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 12:48:10 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Backport of import tests for bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1293 and bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1342
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r58751 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 13:11:06 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Removed non ASCII text from test as requested by Guido. Sorry :/
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r58753 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 13:37:02 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Fix markup glitch.
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r58757 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:08:14 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
Fix bug introduced in revision 58385. Database keys could no longer
have NULL bytes in them. Replace the errant strdup with a
malloc+memcpy. Adds a unit test for the correct behavior.
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r58758 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:15:36 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Undo revision 58533 58534 fixes. Those were a workaround for
a problem introduced by 58385.
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r58759 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:17:47 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
false "fix" undone as correct problem was found and fixed.
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r58765 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-02 01:24:59 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Added more file-handling related cross-references.
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r58766 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-02 03:09:12 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Fix for bug 1705170 - contextmanager swallowing StopIteration (2.5 backport candidate)
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r58784 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:10:24 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
--with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes" because the
bundled libffi sources are too old.
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r58785 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:11:23 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Enable the full ctypes c_longdouble tests again.
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r58796 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-02 13:06:17 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
Make "hashable" a glossary entry and clarify docs on __cmp__, __eq__ and __hash__.
I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/difflib.rst b/Doc/library/difflib.rst index d3724dd..fe956b2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/difflib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/difflib.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ diffs. For comparing directories and files, see also, the :mod:`filecmp` module. .. class:: SequenceMatcher This is a flexible class for comparing pairs of sequences of any type, so long - as the sequence elements are hashable. The basic algorithm predates, and is a + as the sequence elements are :term:`hashable`. The basic algorithm predates, and is a little fancier than, an algorithm published in the late 1980's by Ratcliff and Obershelp under the hyperbolic name "gestalt pattern matching." The idea is to find the longest contiguous matching subsequence that contains no "junk" @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ The :class:`SequenceMatcher` class has this constructor: on blanks or hard tabs. The optional arguments *a* and *b* are sequences to be compared; both default to - empty strings. The elements of both sequences must be hashable. + empty strings. The elements of both sequences must be :term:`hashable`. :class:`SequenceMatcher` objects have the following methods: |