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Tip revision: 1da43e5e916949c8e849e656d9d05fa4b9d6836c authored by Benjamin Peterson on 26 June 2009, 13:21:52 UTC
rearrange the sections of the README, so they'll hopefully be more in the order people will interested in
rearrange the sections of the README, so they'll hopefully be more in the order people will interested in
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concrete.rst
.. highlightlang:: c
.. _concrete:
**********************
Concrete Objects Layer
**********************
The functions in this chapter are specific to certain Python object types.
Passing them an object of the wrong type is not a good idea; if you receive an
object from a Python program and you are not sure that it has the right type,
you must perform a type check first; for example, to check that an object is a
dictionary, use :cfunc:`PyDict_Check`. The chapter is structured like the
"family tree" of Python object types.
.. warning::
While the functions described in this chapter carefully check the type of the
objects which are passed in, many of them do not check for *NULL* being passed
instead of a valid object. Allowing *NULL* to be passed in can cause memory
access violations and immediate termination of the interpreter.
.. _fundamental:
Fundamental Objects
===================
This section describes Python type objects and the singleton object ``None``.
.. toctree::
type.rst
none.rst
.. _numericobjects:
Numeric Objects
===============
.. index:: object: numeric
.. toctree::
long.rst
bool.rst
float.rst
complex.rst
.. _sequenceobjects:
Sequence Objects
================
.. index:: object: sequence
Generic operations on sequence objects were discussed in the previous chapter;
this section deals with the specific kinds of sequence objects that are
intrinsic to the Python language.
.. XXX sort out unicode, str, bytes and bytearray
.. toctree::
bytes.rst
bytearray.rst
unicode.rst
buffer.rst
tuple.rst
list.rst
.. _mapobjects:
Mapping Objects
===============
.. index:: object: mapping
.. toctree::
dict.rst
.. _otherobjects:
Other Objects
=============
.. toctree::
set.rst
function.rst
method.rst
file.rst
module.rst
iterator.rst
descriptor.rst
slice.rst
weakref.rst
capsule.rst
cobject.rst
cell.rst
gen.rst
datetime.rst