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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index fa34f29..2961af1 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Glossary providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like :func:`hasattr` would be clumsy or subtly wrong (for example with :ref:`magic methods <special-lookup>`). Python comes with many built-in ABCs for - data structures (in the :mod:`collections` module), numbers (in the + data structures (in the :mod:`collections.abc` module), numbers (in the :mod:`numbers` module), streams (in the :mod:`io` module), import finders and loaders (in the :mod:`importlib.abc` module). You can create your own ABCs with the :mod:`abc` module. @@ -582,6 +582,14 @@ Glossary 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 |