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Documented new built-in function vars().

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Documented new formatting features: %s takes any type, and
'%(key)format' % dictionary.
Documented posixpath.expandvars().
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Guido van Rossum 1994-04-21 10:32:28 +00:00
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@ -355,6 +355,18 @@ its goal is to return a printable string.
\end{verbatim}\ecode
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{vars}{}
Without arguments, return a dictionary corresponding to the current
local symbol table. With a module, class or class instance object as
argument (or anything else that has a \code{__dict__} attribute),
returns a dictionary corresponding to the object's symbol table.
The returned dictionary should not be modified: the effects on the
corresponding symbol table are undefined.%
\footnote{In the current implementation, local variable bindings
cannot normally be affected this way, but variables retrieved from
other scopes can be. This may change.}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{xrange}{start\, end\, step}
This function is very similar to \code{range()}, but returns an
``xrange object'' instead of a list. This is an opaque sequence type