From 9a053731458db4f8e4dad6e7f59a56c2ec58ac39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:29:39 +0000 Subject: #4517: add "special method" glossary entry and clarify when __getattribute__ is bypassed. --- Doc/glossary.rst | 6 ++++++ Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 7a87dd5..f3d86c3 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -498,6 +498,12 @@ Glossary (subscript) notation uses :class:`slice` objects internally (or in older versions, :meth:`__getslice__` and :meth:`__setslice__`). + special method + A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain + operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting + and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in + :ref:`specialnames`. + statement A statement is part of a suite (a "block" of code). A statement is either an :term:`expression` or a one of several constructs with a keyword, such diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 4dcc96f..068f0fd 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -2370,7 +2370,7 @@ the instance when looking up special methods:: True In addition to bypassing any instance attributes in the interest of -correctness, implicit special method lookup may also bypass the +correctness, implicit special method lookup generally also bypasses the :meth:`__getattribute__` method even of the object's metaclass:: >>> class Meta(type): -- cgit v0.12