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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-05-02 05:56:04 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-05-02 05:56:04 (GMT)
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Correct information on support for repietition & concatenation for buffer
and xrange objects. This closes SF bug #550555.
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@@ -393,15 +393,17 @@ item tuple must have a trailing comma, e.g., \code{(d,)}.
Buffer objects are not directly supported by Python syntax, but can be
created by calling the builtin function
-\function{buffer()}.\bifuncindex{buffer}. They don't support
-concatenation or repetition.
+\function{buffer()}.\bifuncindex{buffer}. They support
+concatenation and repetition, but the result is a new string object
+rather than a new buffer object.
\obindex{buffer}
Xrange objects are similar to buffers in that there is no specific
-syntax to create them, but they are created using the \function{xrange()}
-function.\bifuncindex{xrange} They don't support slicing,
-concatenation or repetition, and using \code{in}, \code{not in},
-\function{min()} or \function{max()} on them is inefficient.
+syntax to create them, but they are created using the
+\function{xrange()} function.\bifuncindex{xrange} They don't support
+slicing or concatenation, but do support repetition, and using
+\code{in}, \code{not in}, \function{min()} or \function{max()} on them
+is inefficient.
\obindex{xrange}
Most sequence types support the following operations. The \samp{in} and