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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2013-08-01 19:14:43 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2013-08-01 19:14:43 (GMT)
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Issue #18589: fix hyperlinking of type slots (tp_*)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
index 2e7069d..31b6df4 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
@@ -450,9 +450,9 @@ signal that the iterator is done.
Python classes can define an :meth:`__iter__` method, which should create and
return a new iterator for the object; if the object is its own iterator, this
method can just return ``self``. In particular, iterators will usually be their
-own iterators. Extension types implemented in C can implement a :attr:`tp_iter`
+own iterators. Extension types implemented in C can implement a :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_iter`
function in order to return an iterator, and extension types that want to behave
-as iterators can define a :attr:`tp_iternext` function.
+as iterators can define a :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_iternext` function.
So, after all this, what do iterators actually do? They have one required
method, :meth:`next`, which takes no arguments and returns the next value. When
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ there are no more values to be returned, calling :meth:`next` should raise the
In 2.2, Python's :keyword:`for` statement no longer expects a sequence; it
expects something for which :func:`iter` will return an iterator. For backward
compatibility and convenience, an iterator is automatically constructed for
-sequences that don't implement :meth:`__iter__` or a :attr:`tp_iter` slot, so
+sequences that don't implement :meth:`__iter__` or a :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_iter` slot, so
``for i in [1,2,3]`` will still work. Wherever the Python interpreter loops
over a sequence, it's been changed to use the iterator protocol. This means you
can do things like this::