python: syntactic sugar - is it official? where is it described in documentation?

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I often see notes that e.g. []is syntactic sugar for _getitem_ (Why/How does Pandas use square brackets with .loc and .iloc?), but neither by web search, not here on SO, not in glossary in docs.python.org I could find list of all sugars for Python. Are sugars official or left to each implementation specifics?

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names — Vaibhav Vishal, Sep 10 '19 at 08:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '19 at 08:46

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It's documented in the Python data model documentation. It's not exactly synthetic sugar, and more of an implementation detail of how container types work. Python has lots of these so-called "magic methods"

answered Sep 10 '19 at 08:46

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thank you! I've found _getitem_ in pandas source https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/pandas/core/indexing.py and now understand who it is working. – Alex Martian Sep 10 '19 at 09:21

python: syntactic sugar - is it official? where is it described in documentation?

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