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#16728: Mention collections.abc.Sequence in 'sequence' glossary entry

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Andrew Kuchling 2014-02-15 17:05:26 -05:00
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mapping rather than a sequence because the lookups use arbitrary
:term:`immutable` keys rather than integers.
The :class:`collections.abc.Sequence` abstract base class
defines a much richer interface that goes beyond just
:meth:`__getitem__` and :meth:`__len__`, adding :meth:`count`,
:meth:`index`, :meth:`__contains__`, and
:meth:`__reversed__`. Types that implement this expanded
interface can be registered explicitly using
:func:`~abc.register`.
slice
An object usually containing a portion of a :term:`sequence`. A slice is
created using the subscript notation, ``[]`` with colons between numbers