Changes by Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com:
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title: Rearrange descriptions of builtin types - Rearrange descriptions of
builtin types in the Library reference
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Changes by Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com:
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Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment:
Better titles for the proposed new sections:
4.7 Text Data - str
4.8 Binary Data - bytes, bytearray, memoryview
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Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment:
I agree on the subdivision, but I think they should still be grouped together
somehow, since these all really *do* share some interfaces: __getitem__ (with
slicing), __iter__, __len__, at least; arguably __contains__; probably some
others
Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment:
Putting the new sections on tier 2 makes a big difference in discoverability,
since that's the lowest level the main ToC page shows. Perhaps just including
the phrase Sequence Type in the new section titles would provide enough
logical
Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment:
That sounds fine. Or list most of them at tier 2:
4.6 Sequence Types - list, tuple, range, str, bytes and friends
4.6.1 Sequence containers - list, tuple, range
4.6.2 Text Sequence Type - str
4.6.3 Binary Data Sequence Types - bytes,
Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment:
'Sequence Types - list, tuple, str, bytes, etc' *might* work, but I think part
of the problem is that str's brevity is actually a downside in this case. I
know I missed it when I was scanning the ToC earlier (I wanted to check if the
internal
Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment:
How about list, tuple, text and binary strings ?
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Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
I believe this is a duplicate of #4966.
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resolution: - duplicate
stage: needs patch - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
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