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#15543: glossary entry for and 'universal newlines', and links to it.

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R David Murray 2012-08-15 10:43:58 -04:00
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object has a type. An object's type is accessible as its
:attr:`__class__` attribute or can be retrieved with ``type(obj)``.
universal newlines
A manner of interpreting text streams in which all of the following are
recognized as ending a line: the Unix end-of-line convention ``'\n'``,
the Windows convention ``'\r\n'``, and the old Macintosh convention
``'\r'``. See :pep:`278` and :pep:`3116`, as well as
:func:`str.splitlines` for an additional use.
view
The objects returned from :meth:`dict.keys`, :meth:`dict.values`, and
:meth:`dict.items` are called dictionary views. They are lazy sequences