From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:17:51 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-40045: Make "dunder" method documentation easier to locate (GH-19153) (GH-19199) X-Git-Tag: v3.7.8rc1~124 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3622b2dcc9278900a7e3cbef12edfa83a8728ed;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-40045: Make "dunder" method documentation easier to locate (GH-19153) (GH-19199) * issue 40045 * Update lexical_analysis.rst Make "dunder" method documentation easier(GH-19153) Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <33177550+nanjekyejoannah@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 5f9c131c099d6675d1a9d0228497865488afd548) Co-authored-by: Javad Mokhtari Co-authored-by: Javad Mokhtari --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 9f51f41edd50..f6f250e39150 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -376,11 +376,11 @@ characters: information on this convention. ``__*__`` - System-defined names. These names are defined by the interpreter and its - implementation (including the standard library). Current system names are - discussed in the :ref:`specialnames` section and elsewhere. More will likely - be defined in future versions of Python. *Any* use of ``__*__`` names, in - any context, that does not follow explicitly documented use, is subject to + System-defined names, informally known as "dunder" names. These names are + defined by the interpreter and its implementation (including the standard library). + Current system names are discussed in the :ref:`specialnames` section and elsewhere. + More will likely be defined in future versions of Python. *Any* use of ``__*__`` names, + in any context, that does not follow explicitly documented use, is subject to breakage without warning. ``__*``