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diff -r 7c717d423160 Doc/glossary.rst --- a/Doc/glossary.rst Wed Dec 19 15:28:46 2012 -0600 +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst Tue Jan 01 22:19:13 2013 -0600 @@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ An object capable of returning its members one at a time. Examples of iterables include all sequence types (such as :class:`list`, :class:`str`, and :class:`tuple`) and some non-sequence - types like :class:`dict` and :class:`file` and objects of any classes you + types like :class:`dict`, :term:`file objects `, and objects + of any classes you define with an :meth:`__iter__` or :meth:`__getitem__` method. Iterables can be used in a :keyword:`for` loop and in many other places where a sequence is needed (:func:`zip`, :func:`map`, ...). When an iterable