[Python-checkins] cpython (3.3): #16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry

[andrew.kuchling]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/30d0816939a3
changeset:   89209:30d0816939a3
branch:      3.3
parent:      89207:3352b5abe1e4
user:        Andrew Kuchling <amk at amk.ca>
date:        Sat Feb 15 17:05:26 2014 -0500
summary:
  #16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry

files:
  Doc/glossary.rst |  8 ++++++++
  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -763,6 +763,14 @@
       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

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