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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-08-19 07:36:59 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-08-19 07:36:59 (GMT)
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Merge fixes for #12256 and typos from 3.2
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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/install.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/glossary.rst5
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/install.rst b/Doc/distutils/install.rst
index 9d916d3..b20f1fb 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/install.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/install.rst
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ one command from a terminal::
python setup.py install
-For Windows, this command should be run from a command prompt windows
+For Windows, this command should be run from a command prompt window
(:menuselection:`Start --> Accessories`)::
setup.py install
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
index 606ea0f..8029243 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ code: it's probably better to write C code like ::
If you need to include header files from some other Python extension, you can
take advantage of the fact that header files are installed in a consistent way
-by the Distutils :command:`install_header` command. For example, the Numerical
+by the Distutils :command:`install_headers` command. For example, the Numerical
Python header files are installed (on a standard Unix installation) to
:file:`/usr/local/include/python1.5/Numerical`. (The exact location will differ
according to your platform and Python installation.) Since the Python include
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 358f40e..c66aac1 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ Glossary
Abstract base classes complement :term:`duck-typing` by
providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like
:func:`hasattr` would be clumsy or subtly wrong (for example with
- :ref:`magic methods <special-lookup>`). Python comes with many built-in ABCs for
+ :ref:`magic methods <special-lookup>`). ABCs introduce virtual
+ subclasses, which are classes that don't inherit from a class but are
+ still recognized by :func:`isinstance` and :func:`issubclass`; see the
+ :mod:`abc` module documentation. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for
data structures (in the :mod:`collections.abc` module), numbers (in the
:mod:`numbers` module), streams (in the :mod:`io` module), import finders
and loaders (in the :mod:`importlib.abc` module). You can create your own