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author | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-10-14 03:35:11 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-10-14 03:35:11 (GMT) |
commit | 75d8a7529574f9997c6b13f9c45f7e79c868b33d (patch) | |
tree | 4be7f9e85ded5dc26058aba6e77575d2050d4d83 /Doc | |
parent | 36f62860f631acefd7988b76901863339ffa26c9 (diff) | |
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Fix minor typos in Whatsnew (GH-16759)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index c53bffb..422a649 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ keywords, the parameters names remain available for use in ``**kwargs``:: This greatly simplifies the implementation of functions and methods that need to accept arbitrary keyword arguments. For example, here -is an except from code in the :mod:`collections` module:: +is an excerpt from code in the :mod:`collections` module:: class Counter(dict): @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ subdirectories). Debug build uses the same ABI as release build ----------------------------------------------- -Python now uses the same ABI whether it built in release or debug mode. On +Python now uses the same ABI whether it's built in release or debug mode. On Unix, when Python is built in debug mode, it is now possible to load C extensions built in release mode and C extensions built using the stable ABI. @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ The :func:`ast.parse` function has some new flags: comments" (returned for function definition AST nodes); * ``feature_version=(3, N)`` allows specifying an earlier Python 3 - version. (For example, ``feature_version=(3, 4)`` will treat + version. (For example, ``feature_version=(3, 4)`` will treat ``async`` and ``await`` as non-reserved words.) New function :func:`ast.get_source_segment` returns the source code @@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@ Build and C API Changes without calling functions. This API is now installed by ``make install``. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`35134` and :issue:`35081`, - work initiated by Eric Snow in Python 3.7) + work initiated by Eric Snow in Python 3.7.) * Some macros have been converted to static inline functions: parameter types and return type are well defined, they don't have issues specific to macros, @@ -1361,12 +1361,11 @@ Deprecated Implementations of these methods have been ignoring their *index* parameter, and returning the next item instead. - (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`9372`.) * The :class:`typing.NamedTuple` class has deprecated the ``_field_types`` attribute in favor of the ``__annotations__`` attribute which has the same - information. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36320`.) + information. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36320`.) * :mod:`ast` classes ``Num``, ``Str``, ``Bytes``, ``NameConstant`` and ``Ellipsis`` are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python @@ -1394,7 +1393,6 @@ Deprecated parameter of functions :func:`~gettext.translation` and :func:`~gettext.install` are also deprecated, since they are only used for for the ``l*gettext()`` functions. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33710`.) * The :meth:`~threading.Thread.isAlive()` method of :class:`threading.Thread` has been deprecated. @@ -1477,11 +1475,11 @@ The following features and APIs have been removed from Python 3.8: * The ``bufsize`` keyword argument of :func:`fileinput.input` and :func:`fileinput.FileInput` which was ignored and deprecated since Python 3.6 - has been removed. :issue:`36952` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier) + has been removed. :issue:`36952` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier.) * The functions :func:`sys.set_coroutine_wrapper` and :func:`sys.get_coroutine_wrapper` deprecated in Python 3.7 have been removed; - :issue:`36933` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier) + :issue:`36933` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier.) Porting to Python 3.8 @@ -1507,9 +1505,9 @@ Changes in Python behavior (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`34850`.) * The CPython interpreter can swallow exceptions in some circumstances. - In Python 3.8 this happens in less cases. In particular, exceptions + In Python 3.8 this happens in fewer cases. In particular, exceptions raised when getting the attribute from the type dictionary are no longer - ignored. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.) + ignored. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.) * Removed ``__str__`` implementations from builtin types :class:`bool`, :class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`complex` and few classes from @@ -1604,7 +1602,7 @@ Changes in the Python API 16 KiB to 1 MiB. * The ``PyGC_Head`` struct has changed completely. All code that touched the - struct member should be rewritten. (See :issue:`33597`) + struct member should be rewritten. (See :issue:`33597`.) * The ``PyInterpreterState`` struct has been moved into the "internal" header files (specifically Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h). An |