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authorChris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com>2012-10-13 03:28:26 (GMT)
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@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
Without an argument, an array of size 0 is created.
+ See also :ref:`binaryseq` and :ref:`typebytearray`.
+
.. _func-bytes:
.. function:: bytes([source[, encoding[, errors]]])
@@ -135,6 +137,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
Bytes objects can also be created with literals, see :ref:`strings`.
+ See also :ref:`binaryseq`, :ref:`typebytes`, and :ref:`bytes-methods`.
+
.. function:: callable(object)
@@ -688,6 +692,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
*sentinel*, :exc:`StopIteration` will be raised, otherwise the value will
be returned.
+ See also :ref:`typeiter`.
+
One useful application of the second form of :func:`iter` is to read lines of
a file until a certain line is reached. The following example reads a file
until the :meth:`readline` method returns an empty string::
@@ -708,7 +714,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
:noindex:
Rather than being a function, :class:`list` is actually a mutable
- sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq`.
+ sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq-list` and :ref:`typesseq`.
.. function:: locals()
@@ -1082,7 +1088,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
:noindex:
Rather than being a function, :class:`range` is actually an immutable
- sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq`.
+ sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq-range` and :ref:`typesseq`.
.. function:: repr(object)
@@ -1207,7 +1213,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
.. function:: str(object='')
str(object[, encoding[, errors]])
- Return a string version of an object, using one of the following modes:
+ Return a :ref:`string <textseq>` version of an object, using one of the
+ following modes:
If *encoding* and/or *errors* are given, :func:`str` will decode the
*object* which can either be a byte string or a character buffer using
@@ -1230,11 +1237,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
Objects can specify what ``str(object)`` returns by defining a :meth:`__str__`
special method.
- For more information on strings see :ref:`typesseq` which describes sequence
- functionality (strings are sequences), and also the string-specific methods
- described in the :ref:`string-methods` section. To output formatted strings,
- see the :ref:`string-formatting` section. In addition see the
- :ref:`stringservices` section.
+ For more information on strings and string methods, see the :ref:`textseq`
+ section. To output formatted strings, see the :ref:`string-formatting`
+ section. In addition, see the :ref:`stringservices` section.
.. function:: sum(iterable[, start])
@@ -1311,7 +1316,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
:noindex:
Rather than being a function, :class:`tuple` is actually an immutable
- sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq`.
+ sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq-tuple` and :ref:`typesseq`.
.. function:: type(object)
@@ -1344,6 +1349,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
...
>>> X = type('X', (object,), dict(a=1))
+ See also :ref:`bltin-type-objects`.
+
.. function:: vars([object])