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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2011-04-20 23:27:32 (GMT)
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glossary entry for struct sequence
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an :term:`expression` or a one of several constructs with a keyword, such
as :keyword:`if`, :keyword:`while` or :keyword:`for`.
+ struct sequence
+ A tuple with named elements. Struct sequences expose an interface similiar
+ to :term:`named tuple` in that elements can either be accessed either by
+ index or as an attribute. However, they do not have any of the named tuple
+ methods like :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._make` or
+ :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._asdict`. Examples of struct sequences
+ include :data:`sys.float_info` and the return value of :func:`os.stat`.
+
triple-quoted string
A string which is bound by three instances of either a quotation mark
(") or an apostrophe ('). While they don't provide any functionality