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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/atexit.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/os.path.rst16
-rw-r--r--Tools/README7
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/atexit.rst b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
index 8d5bbab..eab8cd9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/atexit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ interpreter termination.
<http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release27-maint/Lib/atexit.py?view=markup>`_
Note: the functions registered via this module are not called when the program
-is killed by a signal, when a Python fatal internal error is detected, or when
-:func:`os._exit` is called.
+is killed by a signal not handled by Python, when a Python fatal internal error
+is detected, or when :func:`os._exit` is called.
.. index:: single: exitfunc (in sys)
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
index aebde0c..4867e8b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
@@ -268,14 +268,14 @@ write files see :func:`open`, and for accessing the filesystem see the
.. function:: split(path)
- Split the pathname *path* into a pair, ``(head, tail)`` where *tail* is the last
- pathname component and *head* is everything leading up to that. The *tail* part
- will never contain a slash; if *path* ends in a slash, *tail* will be empty. If
- there is no slash in *path*, *head* will be empty. If *path* is empty, both
- *head* and *tail* are empty. Trailing slashes are stripped from *head* unless
- it is the root (one or more slashes only). In nearly all cases, ``join(head,
- tail)`` equals *path* (the only exception being when there were multiple slashes
- separating *head* from *tail*).
+ Split the pathname *path* into a pair, ``(head, tail)`` where *tail* is the
+ last pathname component and *head* is everything leading up to that. The
+ *tail* part will never contain a slash; if *path* ends in a slash, *tail*
+ will be empty. If there is no slash in *path*, *head* will be empty. If
+ *path* is empty, both *head* and *tail* are empty. Trailing slashes are
+ stripped from *head* unless it is the root (one or more slashes only). In
+ all cases, ``join(head, tail)`` returns a path to the same location as *path*
+ (but the strings may differ).
.. function:: splitdrive(path)
diff --git a/Tools/README b/Tools/README
index 6288348..1fb0103 100644
--- a/Tools/README
+++ b/Tools/README
@@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ i18n Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
pynche A Tkinter-based color editor.
-scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
- (by Tim Peters), which checks for inconsistent mixing
- of tabs and spaces.
+scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
+ by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
+ tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
+ to Python 3 code.
unicode Tools used to generate unicode database files for
Python 2.0 (by Fredrik Lundh).