Commit 17dafdc2 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Clarify that abs() is not a namespace.

parent 62e4231a
......@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Let's begin with some definitions.
A *namespace* is a mapping from names to objects. Most namespaces are currently
implemented as Python dictionaries, but that's normally not noticeable in any
way (except for performance), and it may change in the future. Examples of
namespaces are: the set of built-in names (functions such as :func:`abs`, and
namespaces are: the set of built-in names (containing functions such as :func:`abs`, and
built-in exception names); the global names in a module; and the local names in
a function invocation. In a sense the set of attributes of an object also form
a namespace. The important thing to know about namespaces is that there is
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