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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2017-01-14 09:54:57 (GMT)
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2017-01-14 09:54:57 (GMT)
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Merge doc fixes from 3.5
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@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ Here's a small but realistic example::
server_log = functools.partial(log, subsystem='server')
server_log('Unable to open socket')
-Here's another example, from a program that uses PyGTK. Here a context-
-sensitive pop-up menu is being constructed dynamically. The callback provided
+Here's another example, from a program that uses PyGTK. Here a context-sensitive
+pop-up menu is being constructed dynamically. The callback provided
for the menu option is a partially applied version of the :meth:`open_item`
method, where the first argument has been provided. ::
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ method, where the first argument has been provided. ::
popup_menu.append( ("Open", open_func, 1) )
Another function in the :mod:`functools` module is the
-``update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped)`` function that helps you write well-
-behaved decorators. :func:`update_wrapper` copies the name, module, and
+``update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped)`` function that helps you write
+well-behaved decorators. :func:`update_wrapper` copies the name, module, and
docstring attribute to a wrapper function so that tracebacks inside the wrapped
function are easier to understand. For example, you might write::
@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ can't protect against having your submodule's name being used for a new module
added in a future version of Python.
In Python 2.5, you can switch :keyword:`import`'s behaviour to absolute imports
-using a ``from __future__ import absolute_import`` directive. This absolute-
-import behaviour will become the default in a future version (probably Python
+using a ``from __future__ import absolute_import`` directive. This absolute-import
+behaviour will become the default in a future version (probably Python
2.7). Once absolute imports are the default, ``import string`` will always
find the standard library's version. It's suggested that users should begin
using absolute imports as much as possible, so it's preferable to begin writing
@@ -602,8 +602,8 @@ be used with the ':keyword:`with`' statement. File objects are one example::
... more processing code ...
After this statement has executed, the file object in *f* will have been
-automatically closed, even if the :keyword:`for` loop raised an exception part-
-way through the block.
+automatically closed, even if the :keyword:`for` loop raised an exception
+part-way through the block.
.. note::
@@ -1558,8 +1558,8 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the details.
You can also pack and unpack data to and from buffer objects directly using the
``pack_into(buffer, offset, v1, v2, ...)`` and ``unpack_from(buffer,
- offset)`` methods. This lets you store data directly into an array or a memory-
- mapped file.
+ offset)`` methods. This lets you store data directly into an array or a
+ memory-mapped file.
(:class:`Struct` objects were implemented by Bob Ippolito at the NeedForSpeed
sprint. Support for buffer objects was added by Martin Blais, also at the
@@ -2281,8 +2281,8 @@ Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions,
corrections and assistance with various drafts of this article: Georg Brandl,
-Nick Coghlan, Phillip J. Eby, Lars Gustäbel, Raymond Hettinger, Ralf W. Grosse-
-Kunstleve, Kent Johnson, Iain Lowe, Martin von Löwis, Fredrik Lundh, Andrew
+Nick Coghlan, Phillip J. Eby, Lars Gustäbel, Raymond Hettinger, Ralf W.
+Grosse-Kunstleve, Kent Johnson, Iain Lowe, Martin von Löwis, Fredrik Lundh, Andrew
McNamara, Skip Montanaro, Gustavo Niemeyer, Paul Prescod, James Pryor, Mike
Rovner, Scott Weikart, Barry Warsaw, Thomas Wouters.