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  • Committer: Package Import Robot
  • Author(s): Matthias Klose
  • Date: 2011-09-05 22:01:13 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.12 upstream)
  • Revision ID: package-import@ubuntu.com-20110905220113-gmku3knwah89ojat
Tags: 3.2.2-0ubuntu1
* Python 3.2.2 release.
* Search headers in /usr/include/ncursesw for the curses/panel extensions.

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just contains the refcount and a pointer to the object's "type object".  This is
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where the action is; the type object determines which (C) functions get called
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when, for instance, an attribute gets looked up on an object or it is multiplied
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by another object.  These C functions are called "type methods" to distinguish
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them from things like ``[].append`` (which we call "object methods").
 
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by another object.  These C functions are called "type methods".
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So, if you want to define a new object type, you need to create a new type
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object.