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r60735 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-11 23:53:01 +0100 (Mon, 11 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Add notes on how decimal fits into the model.
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r60737 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 00:34:56 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fix markup
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r60738 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 00:38:00 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Backport ABC docs
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r60739 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 01:15:32 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Restore fractions.rst to the document tree.
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r60740 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 01:48:20 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fix typo in comments
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r60741 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 02:18:03 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Bring decimal a bit closer to the spec for Reals.
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r60743 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-02-12 14:47:26 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
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r60745 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-02-12 16:45:50 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
what??! Correct r60225.
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r60747 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-02-12 19:47:34 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
Will backport to 2.5.
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r60749 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 20:05:36 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line
dict.copy() rises from the ashes. Revert r60687.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index f70ccb6..e18dfcf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -12,10 +12,18 @@
there are two datatypes, :class:`deque` and :class:`defaultdict`, and
one datatype factory function, :func:`namedtuple`.
+Besides the containers provided here, the optional :mod:`bsddb`
+module offers the ability to create in-memory or file based ordered
+dictionaries with string keys using the :meth:`bsddb.btopen` method.
+
+In addition to containers, the collections module provides some ABCs
+(abstract base classes) that can be used to test whether a class
+provides a particular interface, for example, is it hashable or
+a mapping.
+
The specialized containers provided in this module provide alternatives
to Python's general purpose built-in containers, :class:`dict`,
:class:`list`, :class:`set`, and :class:`tuple`.
-
Besides the containers provided here, the optional :mod:`bsddb`
module offers the ability to create in-memory or file based ordered
dictionaries with string keys using the :meth:`bsddb.btopen` method.
@@ -128,7 +136,6 @@
(For more about ABCs, see the :mod:`abc` module and :pep:`3119`.)
-
.. _deque-objects:
:class:`deque` objects