I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)
That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
type. The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion
of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is
a TypeError. Includes Skip's suggested text.
about the interpretation of radix 0 for int(), and added description of
the optional radix argument for long(). Based on comments from Reuben
Sumner <rasumner@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #121672.
hyperlinks to relevant sections.
Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
returns an xrange object, not a range object, despite the name of the
source file they're implemented in.
In the list of comparison operators, list != before <>, since <> is
described as obsolescent.
massaging for markup consistency. This closes SourceForge patch #101063.
Added Unicode strings and buffer objects to the list of sequence types.
Small markup nits elsewhere.