Removed spaces before colons and semicolons.

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
index 5a28f89..5973f3b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.4 makes to the core Python language.
      ['A', 'b', 'c', 'D']
 
   Finally, the *reverse* parameter takes a Boolean value.  If the value is true,
-  the list will be sorted into reverse order. Instead of ``L.sort() ;
+  the list will be sorted into reverse order. Instead of ``L.sort();
   L.reverse()``, you can now write ``L.sort(reverse=True)``.
 
   The results of sorting are now guaranteed to be stable.  This means that two
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
index b91e647..683630a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Python's standard :mod:`string` module?  There's no clean way to ignore
 :mod:`pkg.string` and look for the standard module; generally you had to look at
 the contents of ``sys.modules``, which is slightly unclean.    Holger Krekel's
 :mod:`py.std` package provides a tidier way to perform imports from the standard
-library, ``import py ; py.std.string.join()``, but that package isn't available
+library, ``import py; py.std.string.join()``, but that package isn't available
 on all Python installations.
 
 Reading code which relies on relative imports is also less clear, because a
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index bdd7ff7..3ae6c77 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1891,7 +1891,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
     >>> dq=deque(maxlen=3)
     >>> dq
     deque([], maxlen=3)
-    >>> dq.append(1) ; dq.append(2) ; dq.append(3)
+    >>> dq.append(1); dq.append(2); dq.append(3)
     >>> dq
     deque([1, 2, 3], maxlen=3)
     >>> dq.append(4)
@@ -2783,12 +2783,12 @@ http://www.json.org.
 types. The following example encodes and decodes a dictionary::
 
        >>> import json
-       >>> data = {"spam" : "foo", "parrot" : 42}
+       >>> data = {"spam": "foo", "parrot": 42}
        >>> in_json = json.dumps(data) # Encode the data
        >>> in_json
        '{"parrot": 42, "spam": "foo"}'
        >>> json.loads(in_json) # Decode into a Python object
-       {"spam" : "foo", "parrot" : 42}
+       {"spam": "foo", "parrot": 42}
 
 It's also possible to write your own decoders and encoders to support
 more types. Pretty-printing of the JSON strings is also supported.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index b24d44a..b44a2fe 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -1823,12 +1823,12 @@ signal
 * The :mod:`signal` module has new functions:
 
   * :func:`~signal.pthread_sigmask`: fetch and/or change the signal mask of the
-    calling thread (Contributed by Jean-Paul Calderone in :issue:`8407`) ;
-  * :func:`~signal.pthread_kill`: send a signal to a thread ;
-  * :func:`~signal.sigpending`: examine pending functions ;
-  * :func:`~signal.sigwait`: wait a signal.
+    calling thread (Contributed by Jean-Paul Calderone in :issue:`8407`);
+  * :func:`~signal.pthread_kill`: send a signal to a thread;
+  * :func:`~signal.sigpending`: examine pending functions;
+  * :func:`~signal.sigwait`: wait a signal;
   * :func:`~signal.sigwaitinfo`: wait for a signal, returning detailed
-    information about it.
+    information about it;
   * :func:`~signal.sigtimedwait`: like :func:`~signal.sigwaitinfo` but with a
     timeout.