Commit 6cbb4c07 authored by Miss Islington (bot)'s avatar Miss Islington (bot) Committed by GitHub

bpo-33832: Add "magic method" glossary entry (GH-7630)

(cherry picked from commit f760610b)
Co-authored-by: default avatarAndre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
parent 5a331693
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:meth:`load_module`. A loader is typically returned by a
:term:`finder`. See :pep:`302` for details.
magic method
.. index:: pair: magic; method
An informal synonym for :term:`special method`.
mapping
A container object that supports arbitrary key lookups and implements the
methods specified in the :class:`~collections.Mapping` or
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versions, :meth:`__getslice__` and :meth:`__setslice__`).
special method
.. index:: pair: special; method
A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain
operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting
and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in
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