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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-08-19 03:29:51 (GMT)
committerEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-08-19 03:29:51 (GMT)
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Issue #12672: remove confusing part of sentence in documentation
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diff --git a/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst b/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst
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@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ The Python runtime sees all Python objects as variables of type
just contains the refcount and a pointer to the object's "type object". This is
where the action is; the type object determines which (C) functions get called
when, for instance, an attribute gets looked up on an object or it is multiplied
-by another object. These C functions are called "type methods" to distinguish
-them from things like ``[].append`` (which we call "object methods").
+by another object. These C functions are called "type methods".
So, if you want to define a new object type, you need to create a new type
object.