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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 128407e..96d9b79 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1850,8 +1850,8 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. special values and floating-point exceptions in a manner consistent with Annex 'G' of the C99 standard. -* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: :class:`namedtuple(typename, - fieldnames)` is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple +* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: ``namedtuple(typename, fieldnames)`` + is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple whose fields are accessible by name as well as index. For example:: >>> var_type = collections.namedtuple('variable', @@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. variable(id=1, name='amplitude', type='int', size=4) Several places in the standard library that returned tuples have - been modified to return :class:`namedtuple` instances. For example, + been modified to return :func:`namedtuple` instances. For example, the :meth:`Decimal.as_tuple` method now returns a named tuple with :attr:`sign`, :attr:`digits`, and :attr:`exponent` fields. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst index bf1cfaa..cb635e6 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ Implement :pep:`572` (assignment expressions). Patch by Emily Morehouse. .. nonce: voIdcp .. section: Core and Builtins -Speed up :class:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path +Speed up :func:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path for the name descriptors. Patch by Pablo Galindo. .. |