From ead15795986972690217e52087eb946b8a5bbcda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:26:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-33832: Add "magic method" glossary entry (GH-7630) (cherry picked from commit f760610bddd7e8f8ac0914d5d59ef806bc16a73b) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino --- Doc/glossary.rst | 7 +++++++ .../Documentation/2018-06-15-15-57-37.bpo-33832.xBFhKw.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-06-15-15-57-37.bpo-33832.xBFhKw.rst diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index fb8ff2a7c656..472351b485ac 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -659,6 +659,11 @@ Glossary :term:`finder`. See :pep:`302` for details and :class:`importlib.abc.Loader` for an :term:`abstract base class`. + magic method + .. index:: pair: magic; method + + An informal synonym for :term:`special method`. + mapping A container object that supports arbitrary key lookups and implements the methods specified in the :class:`~collections.abc.Mapping` or @@ -1000,6 +1005,8 @@ Glossary (subscript) notation uses :class:`slice` objects internally. special method + .. index:: pair: special; method + A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-06-15-15-57-37.bpo-33832.xBFhKw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-06-15-15-57-37.bpo-33832.xBFhKw.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3d1c63acca3b --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-06-15-15-57-37.bpo-33832.xBFhKw.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Add glossary entry for 'magic method'. -- 2.47.3