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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-23 20:17:27 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-23 20:17:27 (GMT)
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merge with 3.2
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/subprocess.rst2
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2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 427e4a0..ee88379 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ default values. The arguments that are most commonly needed are:
When *stdout* or *stderr* are pipes and *universal_newlines* is
:const:`True` then the output data is assumed to be encoded as UTF-8 and
will automatically be decoded to text. All line endings will be converted
- to ``'\n'`` as described for the universal newlines `'U'`` mode argument
+ to ``'\n'`` as described for the universal newlines ``'U'`` mode argument
to :func:`open`.
If *shell* is :const:`True`, the specified command will be executed through
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 3af4354..da87be7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ always available.
be set at build time with the ``--exec-prefix`` argument to the
:program:`configure` script. Specifically, all configuration files (e.g. the
:file:`pyconfig.h` header file) are installed in the directory
- :file:`{exec_prefix}/lib/python{X.Y}/config', and shared library modules are
+ :file:`{exec_prefix}/lib/python{X.Y}/config`, and shared library modules are
installed in :file:`{exec_prefix}/lib/python{X.Y}/lib-dynload`, where *X.Y*
is the version number of Python, for example ``3.2``.
@@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ always available.
always use the ``startswith`` idiom presented above.
.. seealso::
+
:attr:`os.name` has a coarser granularity. :func:`os.uname` gives
system-dependent version information.
@@ -771,7 +772,7 @@ always available.
argument to the :program:`configure` script. The main collection of Python
library modules is installed in the directory :file:`{prefix}/lib/python{X.Y}``
while the platform independent header files (all except :file:`pyconfig.h`) are
- stored in :file:`{prefix}/include/python{X.Y}``, where *X.Y* is the version
+ stored in :file:`{prefix}/include/python{X.Y}`, where *X.Y* is the version
number of Python, for example ``3.2``.