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authorAndre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>2019-05-03 14:59:05 (GMT)
committerMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-05-03 14:59:05 (GMT)
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Don't use the LHS/RHS acronym in Simple statements (GH-12996)
Prefer the full wording instead, as it is more meaningful for someone not familiar with the terms. Also, LFS/RHS is not used anywhere else in the documentation, while left/right-hand side mentions are common.
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@@ -169,12 +169,12 @@ Assignment of an object to a single target is recursively defined as follows.
.. _attr-target-note:
Note: If the object is a class instance and the attribute reference occurs on
- both sides of the assignment operator, the RHS expression, ``a.x`` can access
+ both sides of the assignment operator, the right-hand side expression, ``a.x`` can access
either an instance attribute or (if no instance attribute exists) a class
- attribute. The LHS target ``a.x`` is always set as an instance attribute,
+ attribute. The left-hand side target ``a.x`` is always set as an instance attribute,
creating it if necessary. Thus, the two occurrences of ``a.x`` do not
- necessarily refer to the same attribute: if the RHS expression refers to a
- class attribute, the LHS creates a new instance attribute as the target of the
+ necessarily refer to the same attribute: if the right-hand side expression refers to a
+ class attribute, the left-hand side creates a new instance attribute as the target of the
assignment::
class Cls: