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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-01-18 18:09:07 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-01-18 18:09:07 (GMT)
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Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description.
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@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ this, see the standard library modules
operations out of which you can build your own
\function{__import__()} function.
-For example, the statement `\code{import} \code{spam}' results in the
+For example, the statement \samp{import spam} results in the
following call:
\code{__import__('spam',} \code{globals(),} \code{locals(), [])};
-the statement \code{from} \code{spam.ham import} \code{eggs} results
-in \code{__import__('spam.ham',} \code{globals(),} \code{locals(),}
-\code{['eggs'])}.
+the statement \samp{from spam.ham import eggs} results
+in \samp{__import__('spam.ham', globals(), locals(), ['eggs'])}.
Note that even though \code{locals()} and \code{['eggs']} are passed
in as arguments, the \function{__import__()} function does not set the
local variable named \code{eggs}; this is done by subsequent code that
@@ -695,9 +694,10 @@ to decode UTF-8 in strict mode, meaning that encoding errors raise
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{unistr}{object}
-Return a Unicode string containing a nicely printable representation of an
-object. For Unicode, this returns the Unicode string itself. For
-all other objects, it tries to convert \code{str(\var{object})] to Unicode.
+Return a Unicode string containing a nicely printable representation
+of an object. For Unicode, this returns the Unicode string itself.
+For all other objects, it tries to convert \code{str(\var{object})} to
+Unicode.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{vars}{\optional{object}}