special values and floating-point exceptions in a manner consistent
with Annex 'G' of the C99 standard.
-* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: :class:`namedtuple(typename,
- fieldnames)` is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple
+* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: ``namedtuple(typename, fieldnames)``
+ is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple
whose fields are accessible by name as well as index. For example::
>>> var_type = collections.namedtuple('variable',
variable(id=1, name='amplitude', type='int', size=4)
Several places in the standard library that returned tuples have
- been modified to return :class:`namedtuple` instances. For example,
+ been modified to return :func:`namedtuple` instances. For example,
the :meth:`Decimal.as_tuple` method now returns a named tuple with
:attr:`sign`, :attr:`digits`, and :attr:`exponent` fields.
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.. section: Core and Builtins
-Speed up :class:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path
+Speed up :func:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path
for the name descriptors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
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