From: Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:05:26 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: #16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry
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#16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 2347828f55..b48eb1ed5f 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -763,6 +763,14 @@ Glossary
       mapping rather than a sequence because the lookups use arbitrary
       :term:`immutable` keys rather than integers.
 
+      The :class:`collections.abc.Sequence` abstract base class
+      defines a much richer interface that goes beyond just
+      :meth:`__getitem__` and :meth:`__len__`, adding :meth:`count`,
+      :meth:`index`, :meth:`__contains__`, and
+      :meth:`__reversed__`. Types that implement this expanded
+      interface can be registered explicitly using
+      :func:`~abc.register`.
+
    slice
       An object usually containing a portion of a :term:`sequence`.  A slice is
       created using the subscript notation, ``[]`` with colons between numbers