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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.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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@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ PEP 370: Per-user ``site-packages`` Directory
When you run Python, the module search path ``sys.path`` usually
includes a directory whose path ends in ``"site-packages"``. This
-directory is intended to hold locally-installed packages available to
+directory is intended to hold locally installed packages available to
all users using a machine or a particular site installation.
Python 2.6 introduces a convention for user-specific site directories.
@@ -2460,7 +2460,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
The function must take a filename and return true if the file
should be excluded or false if it should be archived.
The function is applied to both the name initially passed to :meth:`add`
- and to the names of files in recursively-added directories.
+ and to the names of files in recursively added directories.
(All changes contributed by Lars Gustäbel).
@@ -2513,7 +2513,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
(Contributed by Brett Cannon.)
* The :mod:`textwrap` module can now preserve existing whitespace
- at the beginnings and ends of the newly-created lines
+ at the beginnings and ends of the newly created lines
by specifying ``drop_whitespace=False``
as an argument::