Add 'in' change

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Add two reminders
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Andrew M. Kuchling 2002-08-15 00:40:21 +00:00
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% MacOS framework-related changes (section of its own, probably)
%
% New sorting code
%
% Karatsuba multiplication for long ints (#560379)
%
% xreadlines obsolete; files are their own iterator
%\section{Introduction \label{intro}}
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return self.calc_item(i)
\end{verbatim}
From this example you can also see that the builtin ``\var{slice}''
object is now the type of slice objects, not a function (so is now
consistent with \var{int}, \var{str}, etc from 2.2).
From this example you can also see that the builtin ``\class{slice}''
object is now the type object for the slice type, and is no longer a
function. This is consistent with Python 2.2, where \class{int},
\class{str}, etc., underwent the same change.
%======================================================================
\section{Other Language Changes}
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\item The \keyword{yield} statement is now always a keyword, as
described in section~\ref{section-generators} of this document.
\item The \code{in} operator now works differently for strings.
Previously, when evaluating \code{\var{X} in \var{Y}} where \var{X}
and \var{Y} are strings, \var{X} could only be a single character.
That's now changed; \var{X} can be a string of any length, and
\code{\var{X} in \var{Y}} will return \constant{True} if \var{X} is a
substring of \var{Y}. If \var{X} is the empty string, the result is
always \constant{True}.
\begin{verbatim}
>>> 'ab' in 'abcd'
True
>>> 'ad' in 'abcd'
False
>>> '' in 'abcd'
True
\end{verbatim}
Note that this doesn't tell you where the substring starts; the
\method{find()} method is still necessary to figure that out.
\item A new built-in function \function{enumerate()}
was added, as described in section~\ref{section-enumerate} of this
document.