From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:27:32 +0000 (-0500) Subject: glossary entry for struct sequence X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~2532 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82f614b20a71455e348c3787b4c44991cebb3525;p=python glossary entry for struct sequence --- diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index ec8af62553..4e425c35b7 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -580,6 +580,14 @@ 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