Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> added the comment: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:35, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
What about this:
All slice operations return a new list containing the requested elements. This -means that the following slice returns a shallow copy of the list *a*:: +means that the following slice returns a shallow copy (see the documentation of +the :mod:`copy` module for a definition) of the list *a*::
That's kool, though I like Ezio's idea of putting it on a glossary (and then linking to it) even more.
(BTW, you can use syntax like Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst:487 to have links generated; see http://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging#generating-special-links-in-a-comme... —also linked from the “Comment” label in the form, but it isn’t obvious that it’s a link).
Thanks for the pointer. Note however that I chose my approach because it shows the info at a specific revision, in case the content changes later on. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14112> _______________________________________