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Author: raymond.hettinger Date: Tue Nov 30 18:50:53 2010 New Revision: 86897 Log: Add some internal links. Modified: python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/glossary.rst python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/collections.rst Modified: python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/glossary.rst ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/glossary.rst (original) +++ python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/glossary.rst Tue Nov 30 18:50:53 2010 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ :ref:`2to3-reference`. abstract base class - Abstract Base Classes (abbreviated ABCs) complement :term:`duck-typing` by + :ref:`abstract-base-classes` complement :term:`duck-typing` by providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like :func:`hasattr` would be clumsy. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for data structures (in the :mod:`collections` module), numbers (in the Modified: python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/collections.rst ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/collections.rst (original) +++ python/branches/release27-maint/Doc/library/collections.rst Tue Nov 30 18:50:53 2010 @@ -27,10 +27,9 @@ :class:`defaultdict` dict subclass that calls a factory function to supply missing values .. versionadded:: 2.5 ===================== ==================================================================== =========================== -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, whether it is hashable or -a mapping. +In addition to the concrete container classes, the collections module provides +:ref:`abstract-base-classes` that can be used to test whether a class provides a +particular interface, for example, whether it is hashable or a mapping. .. seealso::
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