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authorGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2003-01-08 03:02:26 (GMT)
committerGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2003-01-08 03:02:26 (GMT)
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Rewrite awkward/ungrammatical sentence.
Typo fix.
-rw-r--r--Doc/ext/newtypes.tex6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/ext/newtypes.tex b/Doc/ext/newtypes.tex
index efe1c7b..631a37a 100644
--- a/Doc/ext/newtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/ext/newtypes.tex
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ typedef struct {
} noddy_NoddyObject;
\end{verbatim}
-This is what a Noddy object will contain. In this case nothing more
-than every Python object contains - a refcount and a pointer to a type
+This is what a Noddy object will contain---in this case, nothing more
+than every Python object contains, namely a refcount and a pointer to a type
object. These are the fields the \code{PyObject_HEAD} macro brings
in. The reason for the macro is to standardize the layout and to
enable special debugging fields in debug builds. Note that there is
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ no semicolon after the \code{PyObject_HEAD} macro; one is included in
the macro definition. Be wary of adding one by accident; it's easy to
do from habit, and your compiler might not complain, but someone
else's probably will! (On Windows, MSVC is known to call this an
-error and refuse to produce compiled code.)
+error and refuse to compile the code.)
For contrast, let's take a look at the corresponding definition for
standard Python integers: