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authorChris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com>2012-11-28 09:45:15 (GMT)
committerChris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com>2012-11-28 09:45:15 (GMT)
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Merge from 3.3: Add a str class entry to the string section (issue #16209).
This commit also moves the documentation for the str built-in function to the new class entry. Links to :class:`str` now go to the class entry with the string methods immediately afterwards.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
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@@ -274,11 +274,13 @@ Sequences
The following types are immutable sequences:
+ .. index::
+ single: string; immutable sequences
+
Strings
.. index::
builtin: chr
builtin: ord
- builtin: str
single: character
single: integer
single: Unicode
@@ -1188,14 +1190,14 @@ Basic customization
Called by :func:`bytes` to compute a byte-string representation of an
object. This should return a ``bytes`` object.
-
-.. method:: object.__format__(self, format_spec)
-
.. index::
+ single: string; __format__() (object method)
pair: string; conversion
- builtin: str
builtin: print
+
+.. method:: object.__format__(self, format_spec)
+
Called by the :func:`format` built-in function (and by extension, the
:meth:`str.format` method of class :class:`str`) to produce a "formatted"
string representation of an object. The ``format_spec`` argument is