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| author | Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com> | 2016-09-07 11:04:41 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com> | 2016-09-07 11:04:41 (GMT) |
| commit | 0f0eac431f6abcc5f6853b26e848b15f848e8844 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d671943461614610c236e3d3e8b3cfc98a2d18d /Doc/library | |
| parent | 0be894b2f6ca17204922399d6982f0b8a9dc59a1 (diff) | |
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Issue #27993: Fix problems with plural objects in docs and comments
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/argparse.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/weakref.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/xml.dom.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 995c4ee..fab0727 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ The following sections describe how each of these are used. prog ^^^^ -By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects uses ``sys.argv[0]`` to determine +By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects use ``sys.argv[0]`` to determine how to display the name of the program in help messages. This default is almost always desirable because it will make the help messages match how the program was invoked on the command line. For example, consider a file named @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ conflict_handler ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ :class:`ArgumentParser` objects do not allow two actions with the same option -string. By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects raises an exception if an +string. By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects raise an exception if an attempt is made to create an argument with an option string that is already in use:: diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst index 0470bd1..e289b97 100644 --- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst +++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ the referent is accessed:: Example ------- -This simple example shows how an application can use objects IDs to retrieve +This simple example shows how an application can use object IDs to retrieve objects that it has seen before. The IDs of the objects can then be used in other data structures without forcing the objects to remain alive, but the objects can still be retrieved by ID if they do. diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst index b037ff6..de334af 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ NodeList Objects ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A :class:`NodeList` represents a sequence of nodes. These objects are used in -two ways in the DOM Core recommendation: the :class:`Element` objects provides +two ways in the DOM Core recommendation: an :class:`Element` object provides one as its list of child nodes, and the :meth:`getElementsByTagName` and :meth:`getElementsByTagNameNS` methods of :class:`Node` return objects with this interface to represent query results. |