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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-06-20 12:19:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-06-20 12:19:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 5ab504ef2fff7a470b747d78b34eec806ca9ae1e (patch) | |
| tree | 9d24f019be65420b68c773917f9cad348b8b7332 | |
| parent | 2c4e462e960fce94e3786663776140b23626831d (diff) | |
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Terminology and typography fixes
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 6 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex index 56d15b8..3eea27a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ fact will break in 2.0. Some work has been done to make integers and long integers a bit more interchangeable. In 1.5.2, large-file support was added for Solaris, -to allow reading files larger than 2Gb; this made the \method{tell()} +to allow reading files larger than 2~GiB; this made the \method{tell()} method of file objects return a long integer instead of a regular integer. Some code would subtract two file offsets and attempt to use the result to multiply a sequence or slice a string, but this raised a diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index a122083..0af4b46 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ now return enhanced tuples: ('amk', 500) \end{verbatim} -\item The \module{gzip} module can now handle files exceeding 2~Gb. +\item The \module{gzip} module can now handle files exceeding 2~GiB. \item The new \module{heapq} module contains an implementation of a heap queue algorithm. A heap is an array-like data structure that diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 302d9a5..2ce0a26 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ space for a \ctype{PyObject} representing the item. 2147483647*4 is already more bytes than a 32-bit address space can contain. It's possible to address that much memory on a 64-bit platform, -however. The pointers for a list that size would only require 16GiB +however. The pointers for a list that size would only require 16~GiB of space, so it's not unreasonable that Python programmers might construct lists that large. Therefore, the Python interpreter had to be changed to use some type other than \ctype{int}, and this will be a @@ -1723,8 +1723,8 @@ Brandl.) % Patch 1120353 \item The \module{zipfile} module now supports the ZIP64 version of the -format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4 GiB and -can contain individual files larger than 4 GiB. (Contributed by +format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4~GiB and +can contain individual files larger than 4~GiB. (Contributed by Ronald Oussoren.) % Patch 1446489 |