Closes SF patch: 552468.

rhettinger · rhettinger · commit 94153096f5bb · 2002-05-12T03:09:25.000Z
Type class unification invalidated the statement:  x.__getitem__[i] is not equivalent to x[i].
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
@@ -897,10 +897,8 @@ \section{Special method names\label{specialnames}}
 defining methods with special names.  For instance, if a class defines
 a method named \method{__getitem__()}, and \code{x} is an instance of
 this class, then \code{x[i]} is equivalent to
-\code{x.__getitem__(i)}.  (The reverse is not true --- if \code{x} is
-a list object, \code{x.__getitem__(i)} is not equivalent to
-\code{x[i]}.)  Except where mentioned, attempts to execute an
-operation raise an exception when no appropriate method is defined.
+\code{x.__getitem__(i)}.  Except where mentioned, attempts to execute
+an operation raise an exception when no appropriate method is defined.
 \withsubitem{(mapping object method)}{\ttindex{__getitem__()}}
 
 When implementing a class that emulates any built-in type, it is
