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| author | Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> | 2008-04-08 22:07:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> | 2008-04-08 22:07:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 7adc776ea6ab808a4bf8fbf2740bb3bb9a7928a4 (patch) | |
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| parent | 24f3c5c646d26350e4de6a878fed3e6db1e4ff9a (diff) | |
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Issue 2408: remove the _types module
It was only used as a helper in types.py to access types (GetSetDescriptorType and MemberDescriptorType),
when they can easily be obtained with python code.
These expressions even work with Jython.
I don't know what the future of the types module is; (cf. discussion in http://bugs.python.org/issue1605 )
at least this change makes it simpler.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/types.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst index b5e3830..6c90ec9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/types.rst +++ b/Doc/library/types.rst @@ -233,20 +233,22 @@ The module defines the following names: .. data:: GetSetDescriptorType - The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyGetSetDef``, such as - ``FrameType.f_locals`` or ``array.array.typecode``. This constant is not - defined in implementations of Python that do not have such extension types, so - for portable code use ``hasattr(types, 'GetSetDescriptorType')``. + The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyGetSetDef``, such + as ``FrameType.f_locals`` or ``array.array.typecode``. This type is used as + descriptor for object attributes; it has the same purpose as the + :class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules. .. versionadded:: 2.5 .. data:: MemberDescriptorType - The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyMemberDef``, such as - ``datetime.timedelta.days``. This constant is not defined in implementations of - Python that do not have such extension types, so for portable code use - ``hasattr(types, 'MemberDescriptorType')``. + The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyMemberDef``, such + as ``datetime.timedelta.days``. This type is used as descriptor for simple C + data members which use standard conversion functions; it has the same purpose + as the :class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules. + In other implementations of Python, this type may be identical to + ``GetSetDescriptorType``. .. versionadded:: 2.5 |