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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-01-31 04:05:52 (GMT)
committerEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-01-31 04:05:52 (GMT)
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Fix some grammar and typos
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ overcome the limitations of :mod:`optparse` which did not provide support for
positional arguments (not just options), subcommands, required options and other
common patterns of specifying and validating options.
-This module has already has widespread success in the community as a
+This module already has widespread success in the community as a
third-party module. Being more fully featured than its predecessor, the
:mod:`argparse` module is now the preferred module for command-line processing.
The older module is still being kept available because of the substantial amount
@@ -328,13 +328,13 @@ aspects that are visible to the programmer:
* The :mod:`py_compile` and :mod:`compileall` modules have been updated to
reflect the new naming convention and target directory. The command-line
- invocation of *compileall* has new command-line options include ``-i`` for
+ invocation of *compileall* has new command-line options: ``-i`` for
specifying a list of files and directories to compile, and ``-b`` which causes
bytecode files to be written to their legacy location rather than
*__pycache__*.
* The :mod:`importlib.abc` module has been updated with new :term:`abstract base
- classes <abstract base class>` for the loading bytecode files. The obsolete
+ classes <abstract base class>` for loading bytecode files. The obsolete
ABCs, :class:`~importlib.abc.PyLoader` and
:class:`~importlib.abc.PyPycLoader`, have been deprecated (instructions on how
to stay Python 3.1 compatible are included with the documentation).
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ the bodies of requests and responses.
The *native strings* are always of type :class:`str` but are restricted to code
points between *U+0000* through *U+00FF* which are translatable to bytes using
*Latin-1* encoding. These strings are used for the keys and values in the
-environ dictionary and for response headers and statuses in the
+``environ`` dictionary and for response headers and statuses in the
:func:`start_response` function. They must follow :rfc:`2616` with respect to
encoding. That is, they must either be *ISO-8859-1* characters or use
:rfc:`2047` MIME encoding.
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
:term:`mapping` objects. This new method makes it possible to use string
formatting with any of one of Python's many dictionary-like tools such as
:class:`~collections.defaultdict`, :class:`~shelve.Shelf`,
- :class:`~configparser.ConfigParser`, or :mod:`dbm`. It also useful with
+ :class:`~configparser.ConfigParser`, or :mod:`dbm`. It is also useful with
custom :class:`dict` subclasses that normalize keys before look-up or that
supply a :meth:`__missing__` method for unknown keys::
@@ -2612,6 +2612,6 @@ require changes to your code:
and :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread()`) should be used instead.
* Due to security risks, :func:`asyncore.handle_accept` has been deprecated, and
- a new functions, :func:`asyncore.handle_accepted` was added to replace it.
+ a new function, :func:`asyncore.handle_accepted` was added to replace it.
(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola in :issue:`6706`.)