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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-02-06 18:46:57 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-02-06 18:46:57 (GMT)
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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst16
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
index b79ce7f..c748993 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ changed.
single "euro" character. (Of course, this change only affects raw
string literals; the euro character is ``'\u20ac'`` in Python 3.0.)
-* The builtin :class:`basestring` abstract type was removed. Use
+* The built-in :class:`basestring` abstract type was removed. Use
:class:`str` instead. The :class:`str` and :class:`bytes` types
don't have functionality enough in common to warrant a shared base
class. The ``2to3`` tool (see below) replaces every occurrence of
@@ -383,10 +383,10 @@ New Syntax
literals (``0720``) are gone.
* New binary literals, e.g. ``0b1010`` (already in 2.6), and
- there is a new corresponding builtin function, :func:`bin`.
+ there is a new corresponding built-in function, :func:`bin`.
* Bytes literals are introduced with a leading ``b`` or ``B``, and
- there is a new corresponding builtin function, :func:`bytes`.
+ there is a new corresponding built-in function, :func:`bytes`.
Changed Syntax
--------------
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ consulted for longer descriptions.
* :ref:`pep-3116`. The :mod:`io` module is now the standard way of
doing file I/O, and the initial values of :data:`sys.stdin`,
:data:`sys.stdout` and :data:`sys.stderr` are now instances of
- :class:`io.TextIOBase`. The builtin :func:`open` function is now an
+ :class:`io.TextIOBase`. The built-in :func:`open` function is now an
alias for :func:`io.open` and has additional keyword arguments
*encoding*, *errors*, *newline* and *closefd*. Also note that an
invalid *mode* argument now raises :exc:`ValueError`, not
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ consulted for longer descriptions.
* :ref:`pep-3119`. The :mod:`abc` module and the ABCs defined in the
:mod:`collections` module plays a somewhat more prominent role in
- the language now, and builtin collection types like :class:`dict`
+ the language now, and built-in collection types like :class:`dict`
and :class:`list` conform to the :class:`collections.MutableMapping`
and :class:`collections.MutableSequence` ABCs, respectively.
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ review:
Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by
:pep:`3108`:
-* Killed :mod:`sets`. Use the builtin :func:`set` function.
+* Killed :mod:`sets`. Use the built-in :func:`set` class.
* Cleanup of the :mod:`sys` module: removed :func:`sys.exitfunc`,
:func:`sys.exc_clear`, :data:`sys.exc_type`, :data:`sys.exc_value`,
@@ -795,8 +795,8 @@ Builtins
It raises :exc:`EOFError` if the input is terminated prematurely.
To get the old behavior of :func:`input`, use ``eval(input())``.
-* A new builtin :func:`next` was added to call the :meth:`__next__`
- method on an object.
+* A new built-in function :func:`next` was added to call the
+ :meth:`__next__` method on an object.
* Moved :func:`intern` to :func:`sys.intern`.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
index c76fd68..f51c4ee 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Support was also added for third-party tools like `PyYAML <http://pyyaml.org/>`_
PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
=================================================
-The builtin :func:`format` function and the :meth:`str.format` method use
+The built-in :func:`format` function and the :meth:`str.format` method use
a mini-language that now includes a simple, non-locale aware way to format
a number with a thousands separator. That provides a way to humanize a
program's output, improving its professional appearance and readability::