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Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation

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On 7/14/2011 9:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>  writes:
>
>> Inside wrote:
>>
>>> As telling in the subject,because "list" and "tuple" aren't functions,they
>>> are types.Is that right?

At one time (before 2.2), they were functions and not classes.
>>
>> Yes they are types. But they can still be used as functions. Does it matter?
>
> As a newcomer to the documentation I looked fruitlessly in the table of
> contents for a section that would contain the built-in types. “Built-in
> functions” was eliminated for the reason the OP states.
>
> I think it matters. (But I haven't proposed a documentation patch for it.)

I once proposed, I believe on the tracker, that 'built-in functions' be 
expanded to 'built-in function and classes'. That was rejected on the 
basis that people would then expect the full class documentation that is 
in the 'built-in types' section (which could now be called the 
built-isssn classes section.

A more exact title would be 'built-in callables', but that would be even 
less helpful to newcomers. Callables are functions in the generic sense.

In any case, the new index makes it easy to see what is in that chapter.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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list(),tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Inside <fancheyujian@gmail.com> - 2011-07-14 18:21 -0700
  Re: list(),tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-15 11:32 +1000
    Re: list(),tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-15 11:51 +1000
      Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-14 23:00 -0400
      Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-07-15 23:03 +0200
    Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 16:24 +1000
  Re: list(),tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-14 18:36 -0700
    Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Corey Richardson <kb1pkl@aim.com> - 2011-07-14 22:01 -0400
  Re: list(),tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-07-18 23:52 -0700
    Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-19 12:31 -0400
    Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-07-20 08:21 +0200
    Re: list(), tuple() should not place at "Built-in functions" in documentation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-20 16:53 -0400

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