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The reference manual doesn't mention new-style classes at all. (I can't see that it really specifies the semantics of old-style classes, either.) I'm not sure the information is even collected anywhere. A start is now at NewClassVsClassicClass
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PEPS that aren't covered: new-style classes.
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SF:984952 PEP 307 not documented (mostly done -- needs a pickle expert to decide if anything else in PEP 307 is worth including).

SF:970783 PyObject_GenericGetAttr is undocumented
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SF:960340 new-style classes (some documentation was already added to [http://docs.python.org/dev/ref/node33.html Python Reference Manual])

SF:914375 modulefinder
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SF:779976 trace undocumented

SF:515751 imputil undocumented

This page lists various things that aren't documented in the main Python docs, but should be. We should try to fix these before 2.5final.

Features

Iterator protocol not described on its own (mentioned in passing in ref's discussion of generators)

Are nested scopes explained in the ref?

Other tasks

Also see ModulesThatNeedDocs.

Add example code to various modules.

Relevant SF bugs

966625 descriptors not documented

813198 Migrate PEP material to docs

MissingFromDocumentation (last edited 2025-02-16 06:02:50 by AdamTurner)

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