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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2019-10-14 03:35:11 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-10-14 03:35:11 (GMT)
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Fix minor typos in Whatsnew (GH-16759)
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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst22
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
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