From: Andrew Kuchling Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:05:26 +0000 (-0500) Subject: #16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry X-Git-Tag: v3.3.5rc1^2~22 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb3ff4468a4dc9c5758c521f407daad81bca6c89;p=python #16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry --- 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