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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-06-30 15:56:23 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-06-30 15:56:23 (GMT)
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Documented the pop() method for lists.
# The brackets generated by \optional{} are real ugly. Alas...
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex
index c16c1fc..0dd1fef 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex
@@ -460,17 +460,19 @@ The following operations are defined on mutable sequence types (where
\lineiii{\var{s}.append(\var{x})}
{same as \code{\var{s}[len(\var{s}):len(\var{s})] = [\var{x}]}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}.count(\var{x})}
- {return number of \var{i}'s for which \code{\var{s}[\var{i}] == \var{x}}}{}
+ {return number of \var{i}'s for which \code{\var{s}[\var{i}] == \var{x}}}{}
\lineiii{\var{s}.index(\var{x})}
- {return smallest \var{i} such that \code{\var{s}[\var{i}] == \var{x}}}{(1)}
+ {return smallest \var{i} such that \code{\var{s}[\var{i}] == \var{x}}}{(1)}
\lineiii{\var{s}.insert(\var{i}, \var{x})}
{same as \code{\var{s}[\var{i}:\var{i}] = [\var{x}]}
if \code{\var{i} >= 0}}{}
+ \lineiii{\var{s}.pop(\optional{\var{i}})}
+ {same as \code{x = \var{s}[\var{i}]; del \var{s}[\var{i}]; return x}}{(4)}
\lineiii{\var{s}.remove(\var{x})}
{same as \code{del \var{s}[\var{s}.index(\var{x})]}}{(1)}
\lineiii{\var{s}.reverse()}
{reverses the items of \var{s} in place}{(3)}
- \lineiii{\var{s}.sort()}
+ \lineiii{\var{s}.sort(\var{cmpfunc})}
{sort the items of \var{s} in place}{(2), (3)}
\end{tableiii}
\indexiv{operations on}{mutable}{sequence}{types}
@@ -508,6 +510,9 @@ list in place for economy of space when sorting or reversing a large
list. They don't return the sorted or reversed list to remind you of
this side effect.
+\item[(4)4] The optional argument \var{i} defaults to \code{-1}, so that
+by default the last item is removed and returned.
+
\end{description}
@@ -849,7 +854,7 @@ object's (writable) attributes;
\item
\code{\var{x}.__methods__} lists the methods of many built-in object types,
e.g., \code{[].__methods__} yields
-\code{['append', 'count', 'index', 'insert', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']};
+\code{['append', 'count', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']};
\item
\code{\var{x}.__members__} lists data attributes;