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Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__.

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Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.
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Terry Jan Reedy 2014-12-10 18:38:19 -05:00
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@ -1904,6 +1904,12 @@ through the container; for mappings, :meth:`__iter__` should be the same as
indexes to allow proper detection of the end of the sequence.
.. method:: object.__missing__(self, key)
Called by :class:`dict`\ .\ :meth:`__getitem__` to implement ``self[key]`` for dict subclasses
when key is not in the dictionary.
.. method:: object.__setitem__(self, key, value)
Called to implement assignment to ``self[key]``. Same note as for