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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-12-05 15:29:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-12-05 15:29:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 9a053731458db4f8e4dad6e7f59a56c2ec58ac39 (patch) | |
| tree | 47f65edc9bc6b5ab686e0f7f2e24b14e16d50587 /Doc | |
| parent | fe879e8a23e61c97aa461d65d0ac495a8a5f4692 (diff) | |
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#4517: add "special method" glossary entry and clarify when __getattribute__ is bypassed.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/glossary.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 7a87dd5..f3d86c3 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -498,6 +498,12 @@ Glossary (subscript) notation uses :class:`slice` objects internally (or in older versions, :meth:`__getslice__` and :meth:`__setslice__`). + special method + A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain + operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting + and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in + :ref:`specialnames`. + statement A statement is part of a suite (a "block" of code). A statement is either an :term:`expression` or a one of several constructs with a keyword, such diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 4dcc96f..068f0fd 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -2370,7 +2370,7 @@ the instance when looking up special methods:: True In addition to bypassing any instance attributes in the interest of -correctness, implicit special method lookup may also bypass the +correctness, implicit special method lookup generally also bypasses the :meth:`__getattribute__` method even of the object's metaclass:: >>> class Meta(type): |