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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-03 20:13:55 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-03 20:13:55 (GMT)
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@@ -22,14 +22,15 @@ written in C and built in to the Python interpreter; others are
written in Python and imported in source form. Some modules provide
interfaces that are highly specific to Python, like printing a stack
trace; some provide interfaces that are specific to particular
-operating systems, like socket I/O; others provide interfaces that are
+operating systems, such as access to specific hardware; others provide
+interfaces that are
specific to a particular application domain, like the World-Wide Web.
Some modules are avaiable in all versions and ports of Python; others
are only available when the underlying system supports or requires
them; yet others are available only when a particular configuration
option was chosen at the time when Python was compiled and installed.
-This manual is organized ``from the inside out'': it first describes
+This manual is organized ``from the inside out:'' it first describes
the built-in data types, then the built-in functions and exceptions,
and finally the modules, grouped in chapters of related modules. The
ordering of the chapters as well as the ordering of the modules within