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authorLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2014-03-16 04:13:56 (GMT)
committerLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2014-03-16 04:13:56 (GMT)
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Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.
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@@ -1226,6 +1226,10 @@ Basic customization
The return value must be a string object.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ The __format__ method of ``object`` itself raises a :exc:`TypeError`
+ if passed any non-empty string.
+
.. _richcmpfuncs:
.. method:: object.__lt__(self, other)
@@ -1643,6 +1647,8 @@ of these candidate metaclasses. If none of the candidate metaclasses meets
that criterion, then the class definition will fail with ``TypeError``.
+.. _prepare:
+
Preparing the class namespace
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -2044,11 +2050,13 @@ left undefined.
``&=``, ``^=``, ``|=``). These methods should attempt to do the operation
in-place (modifying *self*) and return the result (which could be, but does
not have to be, *self*). If a specific method is not defined, the augmented
- assignment falls back to the normal methods. For instance, to execute the
- statement ``x += y``, where *x* is an instance of a class that has an
- :meth:`__iadd__` method, ``x.__iadd__(y)`` is called. If *x* is an instance
- of a class that does not define a :meth:`__iadd__` method, ``x.__add__(y)``
- and ``y.__radd__(x)`` are considered, as with the evaluation of ``x + y``.
+ assignment falls back to the normal methods. For instance, if *x* is an
+ instance of a class with an :meth:`__iadd__` method, ``x += y`` is equivalent
+ to ``x = x.__iadd__(y)`` . Otherwise, ``x.__add__(y)`` and ``y.__radd__(x)``
+ are considered, as with the evaluation of ``x + y``. In certain situations,
+ augmented assignment can result in unexpected errors (see
+ :ref:`faq-augmented-assignment-tuple-error`), but this behavior is in
+ fact part of the data model.
.. method:: object.__neg__(self)