[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2015-07-30 Thread Martin Panter
Martin Panter added the comment: Here is a patch. Perhaps it is what you had in mind. I added quick mentions of the “object” class to The Standard Type Hierarchy and Other Built-in Types. I added documentation of what the object class’s own implementations do where it provides them. I added

[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2015-07-21 Thread Ethan Furman
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[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2014-03-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Doing this is going to be a bit tricky, since currently links like :meth:`object.__format__` go to the special methods section. So I think making the distinction between available special methods and ones that object implements will need to be done at the

[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2014-03-12 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: What does not help is that help(ob) omits all the methods inherited from object, *even when ob is object*. See #20285. -- versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2014-03-10 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: I think there was another issue discussing a separation between object.__str__ and someobject.__bytes__, to make it clear which are existing methods of the object class and which are methods that one may implement in their classes. --

[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2014-03-09 Thread M. Volz
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[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2014-01-11 Thread Ethan Furman
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[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2012-11-23 Thread Ezio Melotti
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[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2012-11-23 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: good idea -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16508 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Jerdonek
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[issue16508] include the object type in the lists of documented types

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Jerdonek
New submission from Chris Jerdonek: This issue is to add the object type to the list of types documented in the language reference's standard type hierarchy and the library reference's list of built-in types: http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy