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r70342 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-13 14:03:58 -0500 (Fri, 13 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5486: typos.
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r70385 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-15 09:38:55 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
fix tuple.index() error message #5495
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r70386 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:32:06 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5496: fix docstring of lookup().
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r70387 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:37:16 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5493: clarify __nonzero__ docs.
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r70389 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:43:38 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Fix a small nit in the error message if bool() falls back on __len__ and it returns the wrong type: it would tell the user that __nonzero__ should return bool or int.
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r70390 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:44:43 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5491: clarify nested() semantics.
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r70392 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:46:00 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5488: add missing struct member.
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r70393 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:47:42 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5478: fix copy-paste oversight in function signature.
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r70395 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:51:48 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
#5276: document IDLESTARTUP and .Idle.py.
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r70400 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:59:37 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 3 lines
Fix markup in re docs and give a mail address in regex howto, so that
the recommendation to send suggestions to the author can be followed.
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r70405 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 17:11:07 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 7 lines
Move the previously local import of threading to module level.
This is cleaner and avoids lockups in obscure cases where a Queue
is instantiated while the import lock is already held by another thread.
OKed by Tim Peters.
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r70406 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-03-15 17:43:14 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Added skip for old MSVC.
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r70418 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-16 14:42:03 -0500 (Mon, 16 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Add token markup.
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r70438 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-17 15:29:51 -0500 (Tue, 17 Mar 2009) | 1 line
I thought this was begging for an example
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r70464 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-18 15:58:09 -0500 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) | 1 line
a much better example
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r70468 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-18 22:04:31 -0500 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) | 1 line
close files after comparing them
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 2e4a776..49f2be6 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1251,11 +1251,12 @@
.. index:: single: __len__() (mapping object method)
- Called to implement truth value testing, and the built-in operation ``bool()``;
- should return ``False`` or ``True``. When this method is not defined,
- :meth:`__len__` is called, if it is defined (see below) and ``True`` is returned
- when the length is not zero. If a class defines neither :meth:`__len__` nor
- :meth:`__bool__`, all its instances are considered true.
+ Called to implement truth value testing and the built-in operation
+ ``bool()``; should return ``False`` or ``True``, or their integer equivalents
+ ``0`` or ``1``. When this method is not defined, :meth:`__len__` is called,
+ if it is defined, and the object is considered true if its result is nonzero.
+ If a class defines neither :meth:`__len__` nor :meth:`__bool__`, all its
+ instances are considered true.
.. _attribute-access: