[tinkerpop] 02/02: Merge branch '3.4-dev'

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commit 1cb1d8b706b31c7fc04d99a63c1661dcbad05523
Merge: cf30afb 1c1c48a
Author: Stephen Mallette <st...@amazon.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 17 12:24:04 2021 -0500

    Merge branch '3.4-dev'

 docs/src/reference/gremlin-variants.asciidoc | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --cc docs/src/reference/gremlin-variants.asciidoc
index a3f70fa,ee2e530..06c7306
--- a/docs/src/reference/gremlin-variants.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/src/reference/gremlin-variants.asciidoc
@@@ -782,21 -752,32 +782,34 @@@ Moreover, by importing the `statics` o
  
  With statics loaded its possible to represent the above traversal as below.
  
 -[gremlin-python,modern]
 +[source,python]
  ----
 -g.V().hasLabel('person').has('age',gt(30)).order().by('age',desc).toList()
 +>>> g.V().hasLabel('person').has('age',gt(30)).order().by('age',desc).toList()
 +[v[6], v[4]]
  ----
  
- Finally, statics includes all the `+__+`-methods and thus, anonymous traversals like `+__.out()+` can be expressed as below.
+ Statics includes all the `+__+`-methods and thus, anonymous traversals like `+__.out()+` can be expressed as below.
  That is, without the `+__+`-prefix.
  
 -[gremlin-python,modern]
 +[source,python]
  ----
 -g.V().repeat(out()).times(2).name.fold().toList()
 +>>> g.V().repeat(out()).times(2).name.fold().toList()
 +[['ripple', 'lop']]
  ----
  
+ There may be situations where certain graphs may want a more exact data type than what Python will allow as a language.
+ To support these situations `gremlin-python` has a few special type classes that can be imported from `statics`. They
+ include:
+ 
+ [source,python]
+ ----
+ from gremlin_python.statics import long         # Java long
+ from gremlin_python.statics import timestamp    # Java timestamp
+ from gremlin_python.statics import SingleByte   # Java byte type
+ from gremlin_python.statics import SingleChar   # Java char type
+ from gremlin_python.statics import GremlinType  # Java Class
+ ----
+ 
  anchor:python-configuration[]
  [[gremlin-python-configuration]]
  === Configuration