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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2009-01-29 04:10:21 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2009-01-29 04:10:21 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r69078 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:54:11 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Clarify some __del__ stuff. ........ r69079 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:54:32 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Minor spelling mistake in datetime docs. ........ r69080 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:55:33 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Ignore .pyc and .pyo files. ........
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index e25d042..f082726 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ Example:
:class:`tzinfo` Objects
-----------------------
-:class:`tzinfo` is an abstract base clase, meaning that this class should not be
+:class:`tzinfo` is an abstract base class, meaning that this class should not be
instantiated directly. You need to derive a concrete subclass, and (at least)
supply implementations of the standard :class:`tzinfo` methods needed by the
:class:`datetime` methods you use. The :mod:`datetime` module does not supply
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 502305d..3fda6a4 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1096,7 +1096,9 @@ Basic customization
is printed to ``sys.stderr`` instead. Also, when :meth:`__del__` is invoked in
response to a module being deleted (e.g., when execution of the program is
done), other globals referenced by the :meth:`__del__` method may already have
- been deleted. For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods should do the absolute
+ been deleted or in the process of being torn down (e.g. the import
+ machinery shutting down). For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods
+ should do the absolute
minimum needed to maintain external invariants. Starting with version 1.5,
Python guarantees that globals whose name begins with a single underscore are
deleted from their module before other globals are deleted; if no other