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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index e2710fab9cf..c758c019ca4 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -420,10 +420,12 @@ strings representing the files in the current directory. Functions which operate on this output would generally not break if you added another file or two to the directory. -Tuples are immutable, meaning that once a tuple has been created, you can't -replace any of its elements with a new value. Lists are mutable, meaning that -you can always change a list's elements. Only immutable elements can be used as -dictionary keys, and hence only tuples and not lists can be used as keys. +Tuples are :term:`immutable`, meaning that once a tuple has been created, you can't +replace any of its elements with a new value. Lists are :term:`mutable`, meaning that +you can always change a list's elements. Only :term:`hashable` objects can +be used as dictionary keys. Most immutable types are hashable, which is why +tuples, but not lists, can be used as keys. Note, however, that a tuple is +only hashable if all of its elements are hashable. How are lists implemented in CPython? diff --git a/Doc/faq/extending.rst b/Doc/faq/extending.rst index 3147fda7c37..1d5abed2317 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/extending.rst @@ -37,24 +37,9 @@ Writing C is hard; are there any alternatives? ---------------------------------------------- There are a number of alternatives to writing your own C extensions, depending -on what you're trying to do. - -.. XXX make sure these all work - -`Cython <https://cython.org>`_ and its relative `Pyrex -<https://www.csse.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/>`_ are compilers -that accept a slightly modified form of Python and generate the corresponding -C code. Cython and Pyrex make it possible to write an extension without having -to learn Python's C API. - -If you need to interface to some C or C++ library for which no Python extension -currently exists, you can try wrapping the library's data types and functions -with a tool such as `SWIG <https://www.swig.org>`_. `SIP -<https://github.com/Python-SIP/sip>`__, `CXX -<https://cxx.sourceforge.net/>`_ `Boost -<https://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html>`_, or `Weave -<https://github.com/scipy/weave>`_ are also -alternatives for wrapping C++ libraries. +on what you're trying to do. :ref:`Recommended third party tools <c-api-tools>` +offer both simpler and more sophisticated approaches to creating C and C++ +extensions for Python. How can I execute arbitrary Python statements from C? |