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author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2011-02-10 09:43:04 (GMT) |
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committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2011-02-10 09:43:04 (GMT) |
commit | 1fbd8e1c9aa51e87d7c36977da3e9de11a507663 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 9662b2f..eba7007 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ special values. It returns *True* for regular numbers and *False* for *Nan* or [True, True, False, False] The :func:`~math.expm1` function computes ``e**x-1`` for small values of *x* -without incuring the loss of precision that usually accompanies the subtraction +without incurring the loss of precision that usually accompanies the subtraction of nearly equal quantities: >>> expm1(0.013671875) # more accurate way to compute e**x-1 for a small x @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ decorator, :func:`~reprlib.recursive_repr`, for detecting recursive calls to logging ------- -In addition to dictionary based configuration described above, the +In addition to dictionary-based configuration described above, the :mod:`logging` package has many other improvements. The logging documentation has been augmented by a :ref:`basic tutorial @@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ archiving file formats (such as xz compressed tarfiles or custom formats). The principal functions are :func:`~shutil.make_archive` and :func:`~shutil.unpack_archive`. By default, both operate on the current directory (which can be set by :func:`os.chdir`) and on any sub-directories. -The archive filename needs to specified with a full pathname. The archiving +The archive filename needs to be specified with a full pathname. The archiving step is non-destructive (the original files are left unchanged). :: @@ -1696,9 +1696,9 @@ To establish an HTTPS connection through a proxy server, there is a new :meth:`~http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel` method that sets the host and port for HTTP Connect tunneling. -To match the behaviour of :mod:`http.server`, the HTTP client library now also +To match the behavior of :mod:`http.server`, the HTTP client library now also encodes headers with ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding. It was already doing that -for incoming headers, so now the behaviour is consistent for both incoming and +for incoming headers, so now the behavior is consistent for both incoming and outgoing traffic. (See work by Armin Ronacher in :issue:`10980`.) unittest @@ -1752,8 +1752,8 @@ names. diagnostics when a test fails. When possible, the failure is recorded along with a diff of the output. This is especially helpful for analyzing log files of failed test runs. However, since diffs can sometime be voluminous, there is - a new :attr:`~unittest.TestCase.maxDiff` attribute which sets maximum length of - diffs. + a new :attr:`~unittest.TestCase.maxDiff` attribute that sets maximum length of + diffs displayed. * In addition, the method names in the module have undergone a number of clean-ups. @@ -2002,7 +2002,7 @@ sysconfig --------- The new :mod:`sysconfig` module makes it straightforward to discover -installation paths and configuration variables which vary across platforms and +installation paths and configuration variables that vary across platforms and installations. The module offers access simple access functions for platform and version |