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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2014-12-10 23:38:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2014-12-10 23:38:19 (GMT) |
| commit | b67f6e27e11264876e185cacd8ebabbf41c27fb0 (patch) | |
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Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__.
Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 618c257..d0eede7 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1904,6 +1904,12 @@ through the container; for mappings, :meth:`__iter__` should be the same as indexes to allow proper detection of the end of the sequence. +.. method:: object.__missing__(self, key) + + Called by :class:`dict`\ .\ :meth:`__getitem__` to implement ``self[key]`` for dict subclasses + when key is not in the dictionary. + + .. method:: object.__setitem__(self, key, value) Called to implement assignment to ``self[key]``. Same note as for |