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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2022-07-05 09:16:10 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-07-05 09:16:10 (GMT)
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Docs: remove redundant "adverb-adjective" hyphens from compound modifiers (GH-94551)
Discussion: https://discuss.python.org/t/slight-grammar-fix-throughout-adverbs-dont-need-hyphen/17021
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-rw-r--r--Doc/reference/datamodel.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/reference/import.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 8ac9a8c..758f3ae 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ Basic customization
Typical implementations create a new instance of the class by invoking the
superclass's :meth:`__new__` method using ``super().__new__(cls[, ...])``
- with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly-created instance
+ with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly created instance
as necessary before returning it.
If :meth:`__new__` is invoked during object construction and it returns an
@@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ Basic customization
predictable between repeated invocations of Python.
This is intended to provide protection against a denial-of-service caused
- by carefully-chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a
+ by carefully chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a
dict insertion, O(n\ :sup:`2`) complexity. See
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for details.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst
index 3a41403..29d402e 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ the module.
.. attribute:: __name__
- The ``__name__`` attribute must be set to the fully-qualified name of
+ The ``__name__`` attribute must be set to the fully qualified name of
the module. This name is used to uniquely identify the module in
the import system.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 1cf0a5b..b76b468 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ the final value of the whole string.
Top-level format specifiers may include nested replacement fields. These nested
fields may include their own conversion fields and :ref:`format specifiers
-<formatspec>`, but may not include more deeply-nested replacement fields. The
+<formatspec>`, but may not include more deeply nested replacement fields. The
:ref:`format specifier mini-language <formatspec>` is the same as that used by
the :meth:`str.format` method.