词汇表

>>>
The default Python prompt of the interactive shell. Often seen for code examples which can be executed interactively in the interpreter.
...
The default Python prompt of the interactive shell when entering code for an indented code block or within a pair of matching left and right delimiters (parentheses, square brackets or curly braces).
2to3

A tool that tries to convert Python 2.x code to Python 3.x code by handling most of the incompatibilities which can be detected by parsing the source and traversing the parse tree.

2to3 可用于标准库作为 lib2to3 ;独立入口点的提供作为 Tools/scripts/2to3 。见 2to3 - 自动 Python 2 到 3 代码翻译 .

抽象基类
抽象基类补充 鸭子类型 by providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like hasattr() would be clumsy or subtly wrong (for example with magic methods ). ABCs introduce virtual subclasses, which are classes that don’t inherit from a class but are still recognized by isinstance() and issubclass() ;见 abc module documentation. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for data structures (in the collections.abc module), numbers (in the numbers module), streams (in the io module), import finders and loaders (in the importlib.abc module). You can create your own ABCs with the abc 模块。
argument

值被传递给 function (或 方法 ) 当调用函数时。有 2 种自变量:

  • 关键词自变量 : an argument preceded by an identifier (e.g. name= ) in a function call or passed as a value in a dictionary preceded by ** 。例如, 3 and 5 are both keyword arguments in the following calls to complex() :

    complex(real=3, imag=5)
    complex(**{'real': 3, 'imag': 5})
    								
  • 位置自变量 : an argument that is not a keyword argument. Positional arguments can appear at the beginning of an argument list and/or be passed as elements of an iterable preceded by * 。例如, 3 and 5 are both positional arguments in the following calls:

    complex(3, 5)
    complex(*(3, 5))
    								

Arguments are assigned to the named local variables in a function body. See the 调用 section for the rules governing this assignment. Syntactically, any expression can be used to represent an argument; the evaluated value is assigned to the local variable.

另请参阅 参数 词汇表条目,FAQ 问题有关 自变量和参数之间的差异 ,和 PEP 362 .

异步上下文管理器
An object which controls the environment seen in an async with 语句通过定义 __aenter__() and __aexit__() 方法。引入通过 PEP 492 .
异步可迭代
对象,可用于 async for 语句。 必须返回 异步迭代器 从其 __aiter__() 方法。引入通过 PEP 492 .
异步迭代器
An object that implements __aiter__() and __anext__() 方法。 __anext__ 必须返回 awaitable 对象。 async for resolves awaitable returned from asynchronous iterator’s __anext__() method until it raises StopAsyncIteration 异常。引入通过 PEP 492 .
属性
A value associated with an object which is referenced by name using dotted expressions. For example, if an object o has an attribute a it would be referenced as o.a .
awaitable
对象可用于 await expression. Can be a 协程 或对象具有 __await__() 方法。 另请参阅 PEP 492 .
BDFL
仁慈的终生独裁者,也称为 Guido van Rossum ,Python 的创建者。
二进制文件

A 文件对象 能读取和写入 像字节对象 。二进制文件的范例是以二进制模式打开的文件 ( 'rb' , 'wb' or 'rb+' ), sys.stdin.buffer , sys.stdout.buffer ,和实例化的 io.BytesIO and gzip.GzipFile .

另请参阅

A 文本文件 读写 str 对象。

像字节对象

对象支持 缓冲协议 且可以导出 C contiguous 缓冲。这包括所有 bytes , bytearray ,和 array.array objects, as well as many common memoryview objects. Bytes-like objects can be used for various operations that work with binary data; these include compression, saving to a binary file, and sending over a socket.

Some operations need the binary data to be mutable. The documentation often refers to these as “read-write bytes-like objects”. Example mutable buffer objects include bytearray memoryview bytearray . Other operations require the binary data to be stored in immutable objects (“read-only bytes-like objects”); examples of these include bytes memoryview bytes 对象。

bytecode

Python source code is compiled into bytecode, the internal representation of a Python program in the CPython interpreter. The bytecode is also cached in .pyc files so that executing the same file is faster the second time (recompilation from source to bytecode can be avoided). This “intermediate language” is said to run on a 虚拟机 that executes the machine code corresponding to each bytecode. Do note that bytecodes are not expected to work between different Python virtual machines, nor to be stable between Python releases.

A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for dis 模块 .

class
A template for creating user-defined objects. Class definitions normally contain method definitions which operate on instances of the 类。
coercion
The implicit conversion of an instance of one type to another during an operation which involves two arguments of the same type. For example, int(3.15) converts the floating point number to the integer 3 ,但 in 3+4.5 , each argument is of a different type (one int, one float), and both must be converted to the same type before they can be added or it 将引发 TypeError . Without coercion, all arguments of even compatible types would have to be normalized to the same value by the programmer, e.g., float(3)+4.5 rather than just 3+4.5 .
复数
An extension of the familiar real number system in which all numbers are expressed as a sum of a real part and an imaginary part. Imaginary numbers are real multiples of the imaginary unit (the square root of -1 ), often written i in mathematics or j in engineering. Python has built-in support for complex numbers, which are written with this latter notation; the imaginary part is written with a j suffix, e.g., 3+1j . To get access to complex equivalents of the math 模块,使用 cmath . Use of complex numbers is a fairly advanced mathematical feature. If you’re not aware of a need for them, it’s almost certain you can safely ignore them.
上下文管理器
控制所见环境的对象在 with 语句通过定义 __enter__() and __exit__() 方法。 见 PEP 343 .
contiguous

准确认为缓冲是连续的,若它是 C-contiguous or Fortran contiguous . Zero-dimensional buffers are C and Fortran contiguous. In one-dimensional arrays, the items must be laid out in memory next to each other, in order of increasing indexes starting from zero. In multidimensional C-contiguous arrays, the last index varies the fastest when visiting items in order of memory address. However, in Fortran contiguous arrays, the first index varies the fastest.

协程
Coroutines is a more generalized form of subroutines. Subroutines are entered at one point and exited at another point. Coroutines can be entered, exited, and resumed at many different points. They can be implemented with the async def 语句。另请参阅 PEP 492 .
协程函数
函数返回 协程 object. A coroutine function may be defined with the async def statement, and may contain await , async for ,和 async with keywords. These were introduced by PEP 492 .
CPython
The canonical implementation of the Python programming language, as distributed on python.org . The term “CPython” is used when necessary to distinguish this implementation from others such as Jython or IronPython.
装饰器

返回另一函数的函数,通常作为函数变换运用,使用 @wrapper 句法。装饰器的常见范例是 classmethod() and staticmethod() .

装饰器句法仅仅是句法糖,以下 2 函数定义在语义上是等效的:

def f(...):
    ...
f = staticmethod(f)
@staticmethod
def f(...):
    ...
						

类存在同样的概念,但很少使用。见文档编制为 函数定义 and 类定义 了解有关装饰器的更多信息。

descriptor

任何对象若有定义方法 __get__() , __set__() ,或 __delete__() . When a class attribute is a descriptor, its special binding behavior is triggered upon attribute lookup. Normally, using a.b to get, set or delete an attribute looks up the object named b in the class dictionary for a , but if b is a descriptor, the respective descriptor method gets called. Understanding descriptors is a key to a deep understanding of Python because they are the basis for many features including functions, methods, properties, class methods, static methods, and reference to super classes.

有关描述符方法的更多信息,见 实现描述符 .

dictionary
An associative array, where arbitrary keys are mapped to values. The keys can be any object with __hash__() and __eq__() 方法。 Called a hash in Perl.
字典视图
对象返回自 dict.keys() , dict.values() ,和 dict.items() are called dictionary views. They provide a dynamic view on the dictionary’s entries, which means that when the dictionary changes, the view reflects these changes. To force the dictionary view to become a full list use list(dictview) 。见 字典视图对象 .
docstring
A string literal which appears as the first expression in a class, function or module. While ignored when the suite is executed, it is recognized by the compiler and put into the __doc__ 属性 of the enclosing class, function or module. Since it is available via introspection, it is the canonical place for documentation of the 对象。
鸭子类型
A programming style which does not look at an object’s type to determine if it has the right interface; instead, the method or attribute is simply called or used (“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.”) By emphasizing interfaces rather than specific types, well-designed code improves its flexibility by allowing polymorphic substitution. Duck-typing avoids tests using type() or isinstance() . (Note, however, that duck-typing can be complemented with 抽象基类 .) Instead, it typically employs hasattr() tests or EAFP programming.
EAFP
Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. This common Python coding style assumes the existence of valid keys or attributes and catches exceptions if the assumption proves false. This clean and fast style is characterized by the presence of many try and except statements. The technique contrasts with the LBYL style common to many other languages such as C.
表达式
A piece of syntax which can be evaluated to some value. In other words, an expression is an accumulation of expression elements like literals, names, attribute access, operators or function calls which all return a value. In contrast to many other languages, not all language constructs are expressions. There are also 语句 s which cannot be used as expressions, such as if . Assignments are also statements, not expressions.
扩展模块
A module written in C or C++, using Python’s C API to interact with the core and with user code.
文件对象

对象暴露面向文件 API (采用方法,譬如 read() or write() ) 到底层资源。根据创建方式,文件对象可以中介访问真实磁盘文件、其它类型存储或通信设备 (例如:标准输入/输出、内存缓冲、套接字、管道、等)。文件对象也称 像文件对象 or .

实际有 3 类文件对象:原生 二进制文件 ,缓冲 二进制文件 and 文本文件 。它们接口的定义在 io 模块。创建文件对象的典型方式是使用 open() 函数。

像文件对象
同义词 文件对象 .
finder

对象试着查找 loader 为正导入模块。

从 Python 3.3 起,有 2 种类型的查找器: 元路径查找器 用于 sys.meta_path ,和 路径条目查找器 用于 sys.path_hooks .

PEP 302 , PEP 420 and PEP 451 了解更多细节。

floor division
Mathematical division that rounds down to nearest integer. The floor division operator is // 。例如,表达式 11 // 4 评估为 2 in contrast to the 2.75 returned by float true division. Note that (-11) // 4 is -3 because that is -2.75 rounded downward 。见 PEP 238 .
function
A series of statements which returns some value to a caller. It can also be passed zero or more arguments which may be used in the execution of the body. See also 参数 , 方法 , 和 函数定义 章节。
函数注解

An arbitrary metadata value associated with a function parameter or return value. Its syntax is explained in section 函数定义 . Annotations may be accessed via the __annotations__ special attribute of a function object.

Python itself does not assign any particular meaning to function annotations. They are intended to be interpreted by third-party libraries or tools. See PEP 3107 , which describes some of their potential uses.

__future__

A pseudo-module which programmers can use to enable new language features which are not compatible with the current interpreter.

By importing the __future__ module and evaluating its variables, you can see when a new feature was first added to the language and when it becomes the default:

>>> import __future__
>>> __future__.division
_Feature((2, 2, 0, 'alpha', 2), (3, 0, 0, 'alpha', 0), 8192)
						
垃圾收集
The process of freeing memory when it is not used anymore. Python performs garbage collection via reference counting and a cyclic garbage collector that is able to detect and break reference cycles.
generator

函数返回 生成器迭代器 。它看起来像正常函数,除了它包含 yield 表达式,用于产生可用于 for 循环的一系列值,或每次可以检索一值采用 next() 函数。

通常指生成器函数,但也可能指 生成器迭代器 在某些上下文中。若欲表达含义不清晰,使用完整术语避免歧义。

生成器迭代器

对象的创建通过 generator 函数。

每个 yield 会临时挂起处理,记住定位执行状态 (包括局部变量和待决 try 语句)。当 生成器迭代器 resumes, it picks-up where it left-off (in contrast to functions which start fresh on every invocation).

生成器表达式

An expression that returns an iterator. It looks like a normal expression followed by a for expression defining a loop variable, range, and an optional if expression. The combined expression generates values for an enclosing function:

>>> sum(i*i for i in range(10))         # sum of squares 0, 1, 4, ... 81
285
						
一般函数

A function composed of multiple functions implementing the same operation for different types. Which implementation should be used during a call is determined by the dispatch algorithm.

另请参阅 单次分派 词汇表条目, functools.singledispatch() 装饰器,和 PEP 443 .

GIL
全局解释器锁 .
全局解释器锁

机制用于 CPython 解释器担保只有一个线程执行 Python bytecode 每次。这简化 CPython 实现通过使对象模型 (包括关键内置类型,譬如 dict ) 隐含安全阻止并发访问。锁定整个解释器使解释器更易于多线程,以付出由多处理器机器提供的许多并行性为代价。

不管怎样,一些扩展模块 (标准或第 3 方) 被设计为在履行计算密集任务 (譬如:压缩或散列) 时释放 GIL。此外,当履行 I/O 时始终释放 GIL。

过去创建 "自由线程" 解释器 (以更细粒度锁定共享数据) 的努力并不成功,因为在常见单处理器情况下会损失性能。据信,克服此性能问题将使得实现更加复杂,因此维护更昂贵。

hashable

对象 hashable 若它拥有的哈希值在其寿命内从不改变 (它需要 __hash__() 方法),且可以比较其它对象 (它需要 __eq__() 方法)。比较相等的可哈希对象必须拥有相同的哈希值。

可哈希性使对象可用作字典键和 set 成员,因为这些数据结构内部使用哈希值。

Python 的所有不可变内置对象都是可哈希的。可变容器 (譬如:列表或字典) 不是。默认情况下,用户定义类实例的对象是可哈希的。比较他们不相等 (除他们自己外),且他们的哈希值派生自其 id() .

IDLE
An Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is a basic editor and interpreter environment which ships with the standard distribution of Python.
immutable
An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and tuples. Such an object cannot be altered. A new object has to be created if a different value has to be stored. They play an important role in places where a constant hash value is needed, for example as a key in a dictionary.
导入路径
A list of locations (or 路径条目 ) that are searched by the 基于路径的查找器 for modules to import. During import, this list of locations usually comes from sys.path ,但 for subpackages it may also come from the parent package’s __path__ 属性。
importing
The process by which Python code in one module is made available to Python code in another module.
importer
An object that both finds and loads a module; both a finder and loader 对象。
interactive
Python has an interactive interpreter which means you can enter statements and expressions at the interpreter prompt, immediately execute them and see their results. Just launch python with no arguments (possibly by selecting it from your computer’s main menu). It is a very powerful way to test out new ideas or inspect modules and packages (remember help(x) ).
interpreted
Python is an interpreted language, as opposed to a compiled one, though the distinction can be blurry because of the presence of the bytecode compiler. This means that source files can be run directly without explicitly creating an executable which is then run. Interpreted languages typically have a shorter development/debug cycle than compiled ones, though their programs generally also run more slowly. See also interactive .
解释器关闭

When asked to shut down, the Python interpreter enters a special phase where it gradually releases all allocated resources, such as modules and various critical internal structures. It also makes several calls to the 垃圾收集器 . This can trigger the execution of code in user-defined destructors or weakref callbacks. Code executed during the shutdown phase can encounter various exceptions as the resources it relies on may not function anymore (common examples are library modules or the warnings machinery).

The main reason for interpreter shutdown is that the __main__ module or the script being run has finished executing.

iterable
An object capable of returning its members one at a time. Examples of iterables include all sequence types (such as list , str , and tuple ) 和一些非序列类型像 dict , 文件对象 , and objects of any classes you define with an __iter__() or __getitem__() method. Iterables can be used in a for loop and in many other places where a sequence is needed ( zip() , map() , ...). When an iterable object is passed as an argument to the built-in function iter() , it returns an iterator for the object. This iterator is good for one pass over the set of values. When using iterables, it is usually not necessary to call iter() or deal with iterator objects yourself. The for statement does that automatically for you, creating a temporary unnamed variable to hold the iterator for the duration of the loop. See also iterator , sequence ,和 generator .
iterator

表示数据流的对象。重复调用迭代器的 __next__() 方法 (或把它传递给内置函数 next() ) 会依次返回流中的项。当没有更多数据可用时 StopIteration 异常被引发取而代之。此时,迭代器对象耗尽,且任何进一步调用其 __next__() 方法仅仅引发 StopIteration 再次。要求迭代器有 __iter__() 方法返回迭代器对象本身,所以,每个迭代器也可迭代,且可以用于接受其它可迭代的大多数地方。试图多次迭代遍历的代码是一个值得注意的例外。容器对象 (譬如 list ) 将产生刷新的新迭代器,每次把它传递给 iter() 函数或把它用于 for 循环。采用迭代器尝试这将仅仅返回用于先前迭代遍历的同一耗尽迭代器对象,使它看起来像空容器。

可以找到更多信息在 迭代器类型 .

关键函数

关键函数 (或整理函数) 是返回用于排序 (或次序) 值的可调用。例如, locale.strxfrm() 是用于产生特定区域设置排序约定意识的排序键。

A number of tools in Python accept key functions to control how elements are ordered or grouped. They include min() , max() , sorted() , list.sort() , heapq.merge() , heapq.nsmallest() , heapq.nlargest() ,和 itertools.groupby() .

There are several ways to create a key function. For example. the str.lower() method can serve as a key function for case insensitive sorts. Alternatively, a key function can be built from a lambda expression such as lambda r: (r[0], r[2]) 。另外, operator module provides three key function constructors: attrgetter() , itemgetter() ,和 methodcaller() 。见 排序怎么样 for examples of how to create and use key functions.

关键词自变量
argument .
lambda
An anonymous inline function consisting of a single 表达式 which is evaluated when the function is called. The syntax to create a lambda function is lambda [arguments]: expression
LBYL

Look before you leap. This coding style explicitly tests for pre-conditions before making calls or lookups. This style contrasts with the EAFP approach and is characterized by the presence of many if 语句。

In a multi-threaded environment, the LBYL approach can risk introducing a race condition between “the looking” and “the leaping”. For example, the code, if key in mapping: return mapping[key] can fail if another thread removes key from 映射 after the test, but before the lookup. This issue can be solved with locks or by using the EAFP approach.

list
内置 Python sequence . Despite its name it is more akin to an array in other languages than to a linked list since access to elements are O(1).
列表推导
A compact way to process all or part of the elements in a sequence and return a list with the results. result = ['{:#04x}'.format(x) for x in range(256) if x % 2 == 0] generates a list of strings containing even hex numbers (0x..) in the range from 0 to 255. The if clause is optional. If omitted, all elements in range(256) are processed.
loader
An object that loads a module. It must define a method named load_module() . A loader is typically returned by a finder 。见 PEP 302 for details and importlib.abc.Loader 对于 抽象基类 .
映射
A container object that supports arbitrary key lookups and implements the methods specified in the Mapping or MutableMapping 抽象基类 . Examples 包括 dict , collections.defaultdict , collections.OrderedDict and collections.Counter .
元路径查找器

A finder returned by a search of sys.meta_path . Meta path finders are related to, but different from 路径条目查找器 .

importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder for the methods that meta path finders implement.

metaclass

The class of a class. Class definitions create a class name, a class dictionary, and a list of base classes. The metaclass is responsible for taking those three arguments and creating the class. Most object oriented programming languages provide a default implementation. What makes Python special is that it is possible to create custom metaclasses. Most users never need this tool, but when the need arises, metaclasses can provide powerful, elegant solutions. They have been used for logging attribute access, adding thread-safety, tracking object creation, implementing singletons, and many other tasks.

可以找到更多信息在 定制类创建 .

方法
A function which is defined inside a class body. If called as an attribute of an instance of that class, the method will get the instance object as its first argument (which is usually called self ). 见 function and 嵌套作用域 .
方法分辨次序
Method Resolution Order is the order in which base classes are searched for a member during lookup. See Python 2.3 MRO (方法分辨次序) for details of the algorithm used by the Python interpreter since the 2.3 release.
模块

An object that serves as an organizational unit of Python code. Modules have a namespace containing arbitrary Python objects. Modules are loaded into Python by the process of importing .

另请参阅 .

模块特定
A namespace containing the import-related information used to load a module. An instance of importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec .
MRO
方法分辨次序 .
可变
可变对象可以改变它们的值但保持它们的 id() 。见 also immutable .
命名元组

Any tuple-like class whose indexable elements are also accessible using named attributes (for example, time.localtime() returns a tuple-like object where the year is accessible either with an index such as t[0] or with a named attribute like t.tm_year ).

A named tuple can be a built-in type such as time.struct_time , or it can be created with a regular class definition. A full featured named tuple can also be created with the factory function collections.namedtuple() . The latter approach automatically provides extra features such as a self-documenting representation like Employee(name='jones', title='programmer') .

namespace
The place where a variable is stored. Namespaces are implemented as dictionaries. There are the local, global and built-in namespaces as well as nested namespaces in objects (in methods). Namespaces support modularity by preventing naming conflicts. For instance, the functions builtins.open and os.open() are distinguished by their namespaces. Namespaces also aid readability and maintainability by making it clear which module implements a function. For instance, writing random.seed() or itertools.islice() makes it clear that those functions are implemented by the random and itertools modules, respectively.
名称空间包

A PEP 420 which serves only as a container for subpackages. Namespace packages may have no physical representation, and specifically are not like a 正则包 because they have no __init__.py 文件。

另请参阅 模块 .

嵌套作用域
The ability to refer to a variable in an enclosing definition. For instance, a function defined inside another function can refer to variables in the outer function. Note that nested scopes by default work only for reference and not for assignment. Local variables both read and write in the innermost scope. Likewise, global variables read and write to the global namespace. The nonlocal allows writing to outer scopes.
新样式类
Old name for the flavor of classes now used for all class objects. In earlier Python versions, only new-style classes could use Python’s newer, versatile features like __slots__ , descriptors, properties, __getattribute__() ,类方法,和静态方法。
对象
Any data with state (attributes or value) and defined behavior (methods). Also the ultimate base class of any new-style class .

Python 模块 which can contain submodules or recursively, subpackages. Technically, a package is a Python module with an __path__ 属性。

另请参阅 正则包 and 名称空间包 .

参数

A named entity in a function (or method) definition that specifies an argument (or in some cases, arguments) that the function can accept. There are five kinds of parameter:

  • 位置或关键词 : specifies an argument that can be passed either positionally 或作为 关键词自变量 . This is the default kind of parameter, for example foo and bar in the following:

    def func(foo, bar=None): ...
    								
  • 仅位置 : specifies an argument that can be supplied only by position. Python has no syntax for defining positional-only parameters. However, some built-in functions have positional-only parameters (e.g. abs() ).

  • 仅关键词 : specifies an argument that can be supplied only by keyword. Keyword-only parameters can be defined by including a single var-positional parameter or bare * in the parameter list of the function definition before them, for example kw_only1 and kw_only2 in the following:

    def func(arg, *, kw_only1, kw_only2): ...
    								
  • var-positional : specifies that an arbitrary sequence of positional arguments can be provided (in addition to any positional arguments already accepted by other parameters). Such a parameter can be defined by prepending the parameter name with * ,例如 args in the following:

    def func(*args, **kwargs): ...
    								
  • var-keyword : specifies that arbitrarily many keyword arguments can be provided (in addition to any keyword arguments already accepted by other parameters). Such a parameter can be defined by prepending the parameter name with ** ,例如 kwargs in the example above.

Parameters can specify both optional and required arguments, as well as default values for some optional arguments.

另请参阅 argument 词汇表条目,FAQ 问题有关 自变量和参数之间的差异 inspect.Parameter 类, 函数定义 章节,和 PEP 362 .

路径条目
A single location on the 导入路径 which the path based finder consults to find modules for importing.
路径条目查找器

A finder returned by a callable on sys.path_hooks (i.e. a 路径条目挂钩 ) which knows how to locate modules given a 路径条目 .

importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder for the methods that path entry finders implement.

路径条目挂钩
A callable on the sys.path_hook list which returns a path entry finder if it knows how to find modules on a specific path entry .
基于路径的查找器
One of the default 元路径查找器 which searches an 导入路径 对于模块。
portion
A set of files in a single directory (possibly stored in a zip file) that contribute to a namespace package, as defined in PEP 420 .
位置自变量
argument .
provisional API

A provisional API is one which has been deliberately excluded from the standard library’s backwards compatibility guarantees. While major changes to such interfaces are not expected, as long as they are marked provisional, backwards incompatible changes (up to and including removal of the interface) may occur if deemed necessary by core developers. Such changes will not be made gratuitously – they will occur only if serious fundamental flaws are uncovered that were missed prior to the inclusion of the API.

Even for provisional APIs, backwards incompatible changes are seen as a “solution of last resort” - every attempt will still be made to find a backwards compatible resolution to any identified problems.

This process allows the standard library to continue to evolve over time, without locking in problematic design errors for extended periods of time. See PEP 411 了解更多细节。

provisional package
provisional API .
Python 3000
Nickname for the Python 3.x release line (coined long ago when the release of version 3 was something in the distant future.) This is also abbreviated “Py3k”.
Pythonic

An idea or piece of code which closely follows the most common idioms of the Python language, rather than implementing code using concepts common to other languages. For example, a common idiom in Python is to loop over all elements of an iterable using a for statement. Many other languages don’t have this type of construct, so people unfamiliar with Python sometimes use a numerical counter instead:

for i in range(len(food)):
    print(food[i])
						

As opposed to the cleaner, Pythonic method:

for piece in food:
    print(piece)
						
合格名称

A dotted name showing the “path” from a module’s global scope to a class, function or method defined in that module, as defined in PEP 3155 . For top-level functions and classes, the qualified name is the same as the object’s name:

>>> class C:
...     class D:
...         def meth(self):
...             pass
...
>>> C.__qualname__
'C'
>>> C.D.__qualname__
'C.D'
>>> C.D.meth.__qualname__
'C.D.meth'
						

When used to refer to modules, the fully qualified name means the entire dotted path to the module, including any parent packages, e.g. email.mime.text :

>>> import email.mime.text
>>> email.mime.text.__name__
'email.mime.text'
						
引用计数
The number of references to an object. When the reference count of an object drops to zero, it is deallocated. Reference counting is generally not visible to Python code, but it is a key element of the CPython implementation. The sys module defines a getrefcount() function that programmers can call to return the reference count for a particular object.
正则包

A traditional , such as a directory containing an __init__.py 文件。

另请参阅 名称空间包 .

__slots__
A declaration inside a class that saves memory by pre-declaring space for instance attributes and eliminating instance dictionaries. Though popular, the technique is somewhat tricky to get right and is best reserved for rare cases where there are large numbers of instances in a memory-critical application.
sequence

An iterable which supports efficient element access using integer indices via the __getitem__() special method and defines a __len__() method that returns the length of the sequence. Some built-in sequence types are list , str , tuple ,和 bytes 。注意, dict also supports __getitem__() and __len__() , but is considered a mapping rather than a sequence because the lookups use arbitrary immutable keys rather than integers.

The collections.abc.Sequence abstract base class defines a much richer interface that goes beyond just __getitem__() and __len__() ,添加 count() , index() , __contains__() ,和 __reversed__() . Types that implement this expanded interface can be registered explicitly using register() .

单次分派
A form of 一般函数 dispatch where the implementation is chosen based on the type of a single argument.
slice
An object usually containing a portion of a sequence . A slice is created using the subscript notation, [] with colons between numbers when several are given, such as in variable_name[1:3:5] . The bracket (subscript) notation uses slice objects internally.
特殊方法
A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in 特殊方法名称 .
语句
A statement is part of a suite (a “block” of code). A statement is either an 表达式 or one of several constructs with a keyword, such as if , while or for .
结构序列
A tuple with named elements. Struct sequences expose an interface similar to 命名元组 in that elements can either be accessed either by index or as an attribute. However, they do not have any of the named tuple methods like _make() or _asdict() . Examples of struct sequences 包括 sys.float_info and the return value of os.stat() .
文本编码
把 Unicode 字符串编码成字节的编解码器。
文本文件

A 文件对象 能读取和写入 str 对象。经常,文本文件实际访问面向字节的数据流,并处理 文本编码 自动。文本文件范例是打开文件按文本模式 ( 'r' or 'w' ), sys.stdin , sys.stdout ,和实例化的 io.StringIO .

另请参阅

A 二进制文件 reads and write bytes 对象。

三引号字符串
A string which is bound by three instances of either a quotation mark (”) or an apostrophe (‘). While they don’t provide any functionality not available with single-quoted strings, they are useful for a number of reasons. They allow you to include unescaped single and double quotes within a string and they can span multiple lines without the use of the continuation character, making them especially useful when writing docstrings.
type
The type of a Python object determines what kind of object it is; every object has a type. An object’s type is accessible as its __class__ attribute or can be retrieved with type(obj) .
通用换行符
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' 。见 PEP 278 and PEP 3116 ,及 bytes.splitlines() for an additional use.
虚拟环境

A cooperatively isolated runtime environment that allows Python users and applications to install and upgrade Python distribution packages without interfering with the behaviour of other Python applications running on the same system.

另请参阅 pyvenv - Creating virtual environments .

虚拟机
A computer defined entirely in software. Python’s virtual machine executes the bytecode 发射通过字节码编译器。
Python 禅宗
Listing of Python design principles and philosophies that are helpful in understanding and using the language. The listing can be found by typing “ import this ” at the interactive prompt.