From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
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