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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index eb1b609..0940a75 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ is called with this new argument list. Random Remarks ============== -.. % [These should perhaps be placed more carefully...] +.. These should perhaps be placed more carefully... Data attributes override method attributes with the same name; to avoid accidental name conflicts, which may cause hard-to-find bugs in large programs, @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ Derived classes may override methods of their base classes. Because methods have no special privileges when calling other methods of the same object, a method of a base class that calls another method defined in the same base class may end up calling a method of a derived class that overrides it. (For C++ -programmers: all methods in Python are effectively :keyword:`virtual`.) +programmers: all methods in Python are effectively ``virtual``.) An overriding method in a derived class may in fact want to extend rather than simply replace the base class method of the same name. There is a simple way to @@ -617,12 +617,10 @@ instance, if you have a function that formats some data from a file object, you can define a class with methods :meth:`read` and :meth:`readline` that get the data from a string buffer instead, and pass it as an argument. -.. % (Unfortunately, this -.. % technique has its limitations: a class can't define operations that -.. % are accessed by special syntax such as sequence subscripting or -.. % arithmetic operators, and assigning such a ``pseudo-file'' to -.. % \code{sys.stdin} will not cause the interpreter to read further input -.. % from it.) +.. (Unfortunately, this technique has its limitations: a class can't define + operations that are accessed by special syntax such as sequence subscripting + or arithmetic operators, and assigning such a "pseudo-file" to sys.stdin will + not cause the interpreter to read further input from it.) Instance method objects have attributes, too: ``m.__self__`` is the instance object with the method :meth:`m`, and ``m.__func__`` is the function object |