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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index cf9682b..f895f80 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1441,13 +1441,15 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. it will be returned if *iterator* has been exhausted; otherwise, the :exc:`StopIteration` exception will be raised. (:issue:`2719`) -* Tuples now have an :meth:`index` method matching the list type's - :meth:`index` method:: +* Tuples now have :meth:`index` and :meth:`count` methods matching the + list type's :meth:`index` and :meth:`count` methods:: >>> t = (0,1,2,3,4) >>> t.index(3) 3 + (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger) + * The built-in types now have improved support for extended slicing syntax, where various combinations of ``(start, stop, step)`` are supplied. Previously, the support was partial and certain corner cases wouldn't work. |