[3.10] Docs: remove redundant "adverb-adjective" hyphens from compound modifiers (GH-94551) (GH-94558)

Discussion: https://discuss.python.org/t/slight-grammar-fix-throughout-adverbs-dont-need-hyphen/17021
(cherry picked from commit 3440d197a55800ecceea3e115e44b4262411359c)

Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>

10 files changed, 25 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
index 0e1cf1f..e40218e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Python's development never completely stops between releases, and a steady flow
 of bug fixes and improvements are always being submitted. A host of minor fixes,
 a few optimizations, additional docstrings, and better error messages went into
 2.0; to list them all would be impossible, but they're certainly significant.
-Consult the publicly-available CVS logs if you want to see the full list.  This
+Consult the publicly available CVS logs if you want to see the full list.  This
 progress is due to the five developers working for  PythonLabs are now getting
 paid to spend their days fixing bugs, and also due to the improved communication
 resulting  from moving to SourceForge.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
index cf55520..745b0aa 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ creates a :class:`LogRecord` instance that is sent to any number of different
 of filters, and each filter can cause the :class:`LogRecord` to be ignored or
 can modify the record before passing it along.  When they're finally output,
 :class:`LogRecord` instances are converted to text by a :class:`Formatter`
-class.  All of these classes can be replaced by your own specially-written
+class.  All of these classes can be replaced by your own specially written
 classes.
 
 With all of these features the :mod:`logging` package should provide enough
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
index 7e11c98..ddfac1a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ having the entire data set in memory at one time.  List comprehensions don't fit
 into this picture very well because they produce a Python list object containing
 all of the items.  This unavoidably pulls all of the objects into memory, which
 can be a problem if your data set is very large.  When trying to write a
-functionally-styled program, it would be natural to write something like::
+functionally styled program, it would be natural to write something like::
 
    links = [link for link in get_all_links() if not link.followed]
    for link in links:
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.4 makes to the core Python language.
 
   (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
 
-* Encountering a failure while importing a module no longer leaves a partially-initialized
+* Encountering a failure while importing a module no longer leaves a partially initialized
   module object in ``sys.modules``.  The incomplete module object left
   behind would fool further imports of the same module into succeeding, leading to
   confusing errors.   (Fixed by Tim Peters.)
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ code:
 * The :mod:`tarfile` module now generates GNU-format tar files by default.
 
 * Encountering a failure while importing a module no longer leaves a
-  partially-initialized module object in ``sys.modules``.
+  partially initialized module object in ``sys.modules``.
 
 * :const:`None` is now a constant; code that binds a new value to  the name
   ``None`` is now a syntax error.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
index 597eaf5..1b1fb3b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ release schedule.  Python 2.5 was released on September 19, 2006.
 
 The changes in Python 2.5 are an interesting mix of language and library
 improvements. The library enhancements will be more important to Python's user
-community, I think, because several widely-useful packages were added.  New
+community, I think, because several widely useful packages were added.  New
 modules include ElementTree for XML processing (:mod:`xml.etree`),
 the SQLite database module (:mod:`sqlite`), and the :mod:`ctypes`
 module for calling C functions.
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the details.
   received several enhancements and a number of bugfixes.  You can now set the
   maximum size in bytes of a field by calling the
   ``csv.field_size_limit(new_limit)`` function; omitting the *new_limit*
-  argument will return the currently-set limit.  The :class:`reader` class now has
+  argument will return the currently set limit.  The :class:`reader` class now has
   a :attr:`line_num` attribute that counts the number of physical lines read from
   the source; records can span multiple physical lines, so :attr:`line_num` is not
   the same as the number of records read.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 0dbb5e5..7524da8 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -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::
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 2e9fdd0..b74a456 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ Comparing an :class:`~collections.OrderedDict` with a regular dictionary
 ignores the insertion order and just compares the keys and values.
 
 How does the :class:`~collections.OrderedDict` work?  It maintains a
-doubly-linked list of keys, appending new keys to the list as they're inserted.
+doubly linked list of keys, appending new keys to the list as they're inserted.
 A secondary dictionary maps keys to their corresponding list node, so
 deletion doesn't have to traverse the entire linked list and therefore
 remains O(1).
@@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ GvR worked on merging them into Python's version of :mod:`unittest`.
 
 * :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertAlmostEqual` and :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertNotAlmostEqual` test
   whether *first* and *second* are approximately equal.  This method
-  can either round their difference to an optionally-specified number
+  can either round their difference to an optionally specified number
   of *places* (the default is 7) and compare it to zero, or require
   the difference to be smaller than a supplied *delta* value.
 
@@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ Port-Specific Changes: Windows
 
 * The :mod:`_winreg` module for accessing the registry now implements
   the :func:`~_winreg.CreateKeyEx` and :func:`~_winreg.DeleteKeyEx`
-  functions, extended versions of previously-supported functions that
+  functions, extended versions of previously supported functions that
   take several extra arguments.  The :func:`~_winreg.DisableReflectionKey`,
   :func:`~_winreg.EnableReflectionKey`, and :func:`~_winreg.QueryReflectionKey`
   were also tested and documented.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
index 4da3507..63b2474 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by
   :data:`string.ascii_letters` etc. instead.  (The reason for the
   removal is that :data:`string.letters` and friends had
   locale-specific behavior, which is a bad idea for such
-  attractively-named global "constants".)
+  attractively named global "constants".)
 
 * Renamed module :mod:`__builtin__` to :mod:`builtins` (removing the
   underscores, adding an 's').  The :data:`__builtins__` variable
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 361e6db..0f98946 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ PEP 405: Virtual Environments
 
 Virtual environments help create separate Python setups while sharing a
 system-wide base install, for ease of maintenance.  Virtual environments
-have their own set of private site packages (i.e. locally-installed
+have their own set of private site packages (i.e. locally installed
 libraries), and are optionally segregated from the system-wide site
 packages.  Their concept and implementation are inspired by the popular
 ``virtualenv`` third-party package, but benefit from tighter integration
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ an IP address associated with a specific IP subnet).
 lzma
 ----
 
-The newly-added :mod:`lzma` module provides data compression and decompression
+The newly added :mod:`lzma` module provides data compression and decompression
 using the LZMA algorithm, including support for the ``.xz`` and ``.lzma``
 file formats.
 
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ decimal
    C-module and libmpdec written by Stefan Krah.
 
 The new C version of the decimal module integrates the high speed libmpdec
-library for arbitrary precision correctly-rounded decimal floating point
+library for arbitrary precision correctly rounded decimal floating point
 arithmetic. libmpdec conforms to IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.
 
 Performance gains range from 10x for database applications to 100x for
@@ -1158,8 +1158,8 @@ API changes
   in order to obtain a rounded or inexact value.
 
 
-* The power function in decimal.py is always correctly-rounded. In the
-  C version, it is defined in terms of the correctly-rounded
+* The power function in decimal.py is always correctly rounded. In the
+  C version, it is defined in terms of the correctly rounded
   :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.exp` and :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.ln` functions,
   but the final result is only "almost always correctly rounded".
 
@@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ zlib
 ----
 
 New attribute :attr:`zlib.Decompress.eof` makes it possible to distinguish
-between a properly-formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one.
+between a properly formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one.
 (Contributed by Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`12646`.)
 
 New attribute :attr:`zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION` reports the version string of
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 0405f2b..e179bb9 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ The :class:`~unittest.TestCase` class has a new method,
 :keyword:`with` block becomes a "sub-test".  This context manager allows a test
 method to dynamically generate subtests  by, say, calling the ``subTest``
 context manager inside a loop.  A single test method can thereby produce an
-indefinite number of separately-identified and separately-counted tests, all of
+indefinite number of separately identified and separately counted tests, all of
 which will run even if one or more of them fail.  For example::
 
     class NumbersTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ Significant Optimizations
   ``malloc`` in ``obmalloc``.  Artificial benchmarks show about a 3% memory
   savings.
 
-* :func:`os.urandom` now uses a lazily-opened persistent file descriptor
+* :func:`os.urandom` now uses a lazily opened persistent file descriptor
   so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in parallel from
   multiple threads.  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`18756`.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 1ee8cfa..7d6e7f2 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ PEP 539: New C API for Thread-Local Storage
 While Python provides a C API for thread-local storage support; the existing
 :ref:`Thread Local Storage (TLS) API <thread-local-storage-api>` has used
 :c:type:`int` to represent TLS keys across all platforms.  This has not
-generally been a problem for officially-support platforms, but that is neither
+generally been a problem for officially support platforms, but that is neither
 POSIX-compliant, nor portable in any practical sense.
 
 :pep:`539` changes this by providing a new :ref:`Thread Specific Storage (TSS)
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ of :func:`os.writev` and :func:`os.pwrite`). (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in
 :issue:`31368`.)
 
 The mode argument of :func:`os.makedirs` no longer affects the file
-permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.
+permission bits of newly created intermediate-level directories.
 (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`19930`.)
 
 :func:`os.dup2` now returns the new file descriptor.  Previously, ``None``
@@ -2296,7 +2296,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29192`.)
 
 * The *mode* argument of :func:`os.makedirs` no longer affects the file
-  permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.
+  permission bits of newly created intermediate-level directories.
   To set their file permission bits you can set the umask before invoking
   ``makedirs()``.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`19930`.)