Commit 24d75219 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

SF bug #1215887: String and list methods documentation deeply hidden

Make doc on specific types easier to find by listing them in the headings
for the abstract types.
parent a0021598
......@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ return one of their operands.)
\index{False}
\index{True}
\subsection{Boolean Operations \label{boolean}}
\subsection{Boolean Operations ---
\keyword{and}, \keyword{or}, \keyword{not}
\label{boolean}}
These are the Boolean operations, ordered by ascending priority:
\indexii{Boolean}{operations}
......@@ -173,7 +175,9 @@ Two more operations with the same syntactic priority,
only by sequence types (below).
\subsection{Numeric Types \label{typesnumeric}}
\subsection{Numeric Types ---
\class{int}, \class{float}, \class{long}, \class{complex}
\label{typesnumeric}}
There are four distinct numeric types: \dfn{plain integers},
\dfn{long integers},
......@@ -405,7 +409,10 @@ return an iterator object (technically, a generator object)
supplying the \method{__iter__()} and \method{next()} methods.
\subsection{Sequence Types \label{typesseq}}
\subsection{Sequence Types ---
\class{str}, \class{unicode}, \class{list},
\class{tuple}, \class{buffer}, \class{xrange}
\label{typesseq}}
There are six sequence types: strings, Unicode strings, lists,
tuples, buffers, and xrange objects.
......@@ -1157,7 +1164,9 @@ Notes:
that the list has been mutated during a sort.
\end{description}
\subsection{Set Types \label{types-set}}
\subsection{Set Types ---
\class{set}, \class{frozenset}
\label{types-set}}
\obindex{set}
A \dfn{set} object is an unordered collection of immutable values.
......@@ -1283,7 +1292,7 @@ Note, the non-operator versions of the \method{update()},
as an argument.
\subsection{Mapping Types \label{typesmapping}}
\subsection{Mapping Types --- class{dict} \label{typesmapping}}
\obindex{mapping}
\obindex{dictionary}
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