Correct ref manual error for list type

[rhettinger]

BPO	552468
Nosy	@freddrake, @rhettinger
Files	ref.diff: Context diff Doc/ref/ref3.tex

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[rhettinger]

Closes SF bug www.python.org/sf/548874

Docs had old information that the list object did not
support a .__getitem__ method. With the new style
classes, they do:

>>> x = list('abc')
>>> x.__getitem__(1)
'b'

Deleted erroneous sentence.

[freddrake]

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Looks good -- check it in & close the patch & related bug
report.

[rhettinger]

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Checked in as /Doc/ref/ref3.tex 1.88.
Patch and bug closed.