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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-07-25 17:40:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-07-25 17:40:32 (GMT) |
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bpo-28677: Improve phrasing of when instance attribute is referenced (GH-6208)
(cherry picked from commit c0f0a7669c73c0d444851dd4c5299de2479214cc)
Co-authored-by: Aaron Ang <aaronang@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 4676ef4..f26838c 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ the corresponding function with an argument list that is created by inserting the method's instance object before the first argument. If you still don't understand how methods work, a look at the implementation can -perhaps clarify matters. When an instance attribute is referenced that isn't a -data attribute, its class is searched. If the name denotes a valid class +perhaps clarify matters. When a non-data attribute of an instance is +referenced, the instance's class is searched. If the name denotes a valid class attribute that is a function object, a method object is created by packing (pointers to) the instance object and the function object just found together in an abstract object: this is the method object. When the method object is called |