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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-09-01 01:20:13 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-09-01 01:20:13 (GMT)
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Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.x
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-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/programming.rst9
-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/windows.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/glossary.rst2
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 8b2f047..d1a3daf 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -473,15 +473,6 @@ calling another function by using ``*`` and ``**``::
...
g(x, *args, **kwargs)
-In the unlikely case that you care about Python versions older than 2.0, use
-:func:`apply`::
-
- def f(x, *args, **kwargs):
- ...
- kwargs['width'] = '14.3c'
- ...
- apply(g, (x,)+args, kwargs)
-
How do I write a function with output parameters (call by reference)?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 6b37faf..68a1b5c 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ with multithreading-DLL options (``/MD``).
If you can't change compilers or flags, try using :c:func:`Py_RunSimpleString`.
A trick to get it to run an arbitrary file is to construct a call to
-:func:`execfile` with the name of your file as argument.
+:func:`exec` and :func:`open` with the name of your file as argument.
Also note that you can not mix-and-match Debug and Release versions. If you
wish to use the Debug Multithreaded DLL, then your module *must* have ``_d``
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 63d4c2b..3b211ae 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ Glossary
:func:`builtins.open` and :func:`os.open` are distinguished by their
namespaces. Namespaces also aid readability and maintainability by making
it clear which module implements a function. For instance, writing
- :func:`random.seed` or :func:`itertools.izip` makes it clear that those
+ :func:`random.seed` or :func:`itertools.islice` makes it clear that those
functions are implemented by the :mod:`random` and :mod:`itertools`
modules, respectively.