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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/allocation.rst b/Doc/c-api/allocation.rst index 33b0c06..0a8fcc5 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/allocation.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/allocation.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Allocating Objects on the Heap .. c:function:: PyObject* PyObject_Init(PyObject *op, PyTypeObject *type) - Initialize a newly-allocated object *op* with its type and initial + Initialize a newly allocated object *op* with its type and initial reference. Returns the initialized object. If *type* indicates that the object participates in the cyclic garbage detector, it is added to the detector's set of observed objects. Other fields of the object are not diff --git a/Doc/c-api/intro.rst b/Doc/c-api/intro.rst index 083f6d3..2c09ac5 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/intro.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/intro.rst @@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ A full list of the various types of debugging builds is in the file :file:`Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt` in the Python source distribution. Builds are available that support tracing of reference counts, debugging the memory allocator, or low-level profiling of the main interpreter loop. Only the most -frequently-used builds will be described in the remainder of this section. +frequently used builds will be described in the remainder of this section. Compiling the interpreter with the :c:macro:`Py_DEBUG` macro defined produces what is generally meant by :ref:`a debug build of Python <debug-build>`. diff --git a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst index f17d24b..1bdb6a8 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ memory manager. For example, this is required when the interpreter is extended with new object types written in C. Another reason for using the Python heap is the desire to *inform* the Python memory manager about the memory needs of the extension module. Even when the requested memory is used exclusively for -internal, highly-specific purposes, delegating all memory requests to the Python +internal, highly specific purposes, delegating all memory requests to the Python memory manager causes the interpreter to have a more accurate image of its memory footprint as a whole. Consequently, under certain circumstances, the Python memory manager may or may not trigger appropriate actions, like garbage diff --git a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst index 3da1403..8d7a2ed 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ type objects) *must* have the :attr:`ob_size` field. ``PyObject_HEAD_INIT`` macro. For :ref:`statically allocated objects <static-types>`, these fields always remain ``NULL``. For :ref:`dynamically allocated objects <heap-types>`, these two fields are used to link the - object into a doubly-linked list of *all* live objects on the heap. + object into a doubly linked list of *all* live objects on the heap. This could be used for various debugging purposes; currently the only uses are the :func:`sys.getobjects` function and to print the objects that are diff --git a/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst b/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst index 98ebe71..cb6aba3 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ as much as it can. callable object that receives notification when *ob* is garbage collected; it should accept a single parameter, which will be the weak reference object itself. *callback* may also be ``None`` or ``NULL``. If *ob* is not a - weakly-referencable object, or if *callback* is not callable, ``None``, or + weakly referencable object, or if *callback* is not callable, ``None``, or ``NULL``, this will return ``NULL`` and raise :exc:`TypeError`. @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ as much as it can. be a callable object that receives notification when *ob* is garbage collected; it should accept a single parameter, which will be the weak reference object itself. *callback* may also be ``None`` or ``NULL``. If *ob* - is not a weakly-referencable object, or if *callback* is not callable, + is not a weakly referencable object, or if *callback* is not callable, ``None``, or ``NULL``, this will return ``NULL`` and raise :exc:`TypeError`. diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst index 5a13acf..a6dfa05 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst @@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ other utility module. it contains certain values: see :func:`check_environ`. Raise :exc:`ValueError` for any variables not found in either *local_vars* or ``os.environ``. - Note that this is not a fully-fledged string interpolation function. A valid + Note that this is not a full-fledged string interpolation function. A valid ``$variable`` can consist only of upper and lower case letters, numbers and an underscore. No { } or ( ) style quoting is available. diff --git a/Doc/extending/building.rst b/Doc/extending/building.rst index 69dffbd..5381707 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/building.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/building.rst @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The initialization function has the signature: .. c:function:: PyObject* PyInit_modulename(void) -It returns either a fully-initialized module, or a :c:type:`PyModuleDef` +It returns either a fully initialized module, or a :c:type:`PyModuleDef` instance. See :ref:`initializing-modules` for details. .. highlight:: python diff --git a/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst b/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst index f75bee9..c7c434e 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ example:: } If no :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_repr` handler is specified, the interpreter will supply a -representation that uses the type's :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_name` and a uniquely-identifying +representation that uses the type's :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_name` and a uniquely identifying value for the object. The :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_str` handler is to :func:`str` what the :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_repr` handler @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ with the required field:: PyObject *weakreflist; /* List of weak references */ } TrivialObject; -And the corresponding member in the statically-declared type object:: +And the corresponding member in the statically declared type object:: static PyTypeObject TrivialType = { PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0) diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index a624fdb..794b697 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ you're too lazy to define a function. Functions are already first class objects in Python, and can be declared in a local scope. Therefore the only advantage of using a lambda instead of a -locally-defined function is that you don't need to invent a name for the +locally defined function is that you don't need to invent a name for the function -- but that's just a local variable to which the function object (which is exactly the same type of object that a lambda expression yields) is assigned! diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index efd7a5a..db4d057 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ It's good practice if you import modules in the following order: 1. standard library modules -- e.g. ``sys``, ``os``, ``getopt``, ``re`` 2. third-party library modules (anything installed in Python's site-packages directory) -- e.g. mx.DateTime, ZODB, PIL.Image, etc. -3. locally-developed modules +3. locally developed modules It is sometimes necessary to move imports to a function or class to avoid problems with circular imports. Gordon McMillan says: @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ What does the slash(/) in the parameter list of a function mean? A slash in the argument list of a function denotes that the parameters prior to it are positional-only. Positional-only parameters are the ones without an -externally-usable name. Upon calling a function that accepts positional-only +externally usable name. Upon calling a function that accepts positional-only parameters, arguments are mapped to parameters based solely on their position. For example, :func:`divmod` is a function that accepts positional-only parameters. Its documentation looks like this:: diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 62c9b86..af6ed71 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ Glossary machines. However, some extension modules, either standard or third-party, - are designed so as to release the GIL when doing computationally-intensive + are designed so as to release the GIL when doing computationally intensive tasks such as compression or hashing. Also, the GIL is always released when doing I/O. diff --git a/Doc/howto/clinic.rst b/Doc/howto/clinic.rst index f219540..5a5cbab 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/clinic.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/clinic.rst @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ Let's dive in! 16. Compile, then run the relevant portions of the regression-test suite. This change should not introduce any new compile-time warnings or errors, - and there should be no externally-visible change to Python's behavior. + and there should be no externally visible change to Python's behavior. Well, except for one difference: ``inspect.signature()`` run on your function should now provide a valid signature! @@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ Here's the syntax for cloning a function:: ``module.class`` in the sample just to illustrate that you must use the full path to *both* functions.) -Sorry, there's no syntax for partially-cloning a function, or cloning a function +Sorry, there's no syntax for partially cloning a function, or cloning a function then modifying it. Cloning is an all-or nothing proposition. Also, the function you are cloning from must have been previously defined @@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ to specify in your subclass. Here's the current list: there is no default, but not specifying a default may result in an "uninitialized variable" warning. This can easily happen when using option groups—although - properly-written code will never actually use this value, + properly written code will never actually use this value, the variable does get passed in to the impl, and the C compiler will complain about the "use" of the uninitialized value. This value should always be a diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst index fb561a6..eb80015 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ further because you risk skipping a discarded element. The itertools module ==================== -The :mod:`itertools` module contains a number of commonly-used iterators as well +The :mod:`itertools` module contains a number of commonly used iterators as well as functions for combining several iterators. This section will introduce the module's contents by showing small examples. diff --git a/Doc/howto/instrumentation.rst b/Doc/howto/instrumentation.rst index 4a59ae8..4ce15c6 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/instrumentation.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/instrumentation.rst @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Sufficiently modern readelf can print the metadata:: Arguments: 8@%rbp 8@%r12 -4@%eax The above metadata contains information for SystemTap describing how it -can patch strategically-placed machine code instructions to enable the +can patch strategically placed machine code instructions to enable the tracing hooks used by a SystemTap script. @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ needing to directly name the static markers: The following script uses the tapset above to provide a top-like view of all -running CPython code, showing the top 20 most frequently-entered bytecode +running CPython code, showing the top 20 most frequently entered bytecode frames, each second, across the whole system: .. code-block:: none diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging.rst b/Doc/howto/logging.rst index ff4e1d7..0115a94 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/logging.rst @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Logging to a file ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A very common situation is that of recording logging events in a file, so let's -look at that next. Be sure to try the following in a newly-started Python +look at that next. Be sure to try the following in a newly started Python interpreter, and don't just continue from the session described above:: import logging diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index c4ebbd3..e07ea1b 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ Additionally, you can retrieve named groups as a dictionary with >>> m.groupdict() {'first': 'Jane', 'last': 'Doe'} -Named groups are handy because they let you use easily-remembered names, instead +Named groups are handy because they let you use easily remembered names, instead of having to remember numbers. Here's an example RE from the :mod:`imaplib` module:: diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst index e77feff..e1a2f48 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ Openers and Handlers ==================== When you fetch a URL you use an opener (an instance of the perhaps -confusingly-named :class:`urllib.request.OpenerDirector`). Normally we have been using +confusingly named :class:`urllib.request.OpenerDirector`). Normally we have been using the default opener - via ``urlopen`` - but you can create custom openers. Openers use handlers. All the "heavy lifting" is done by the handlers. Each handler knows how to open URLs for a particular URL scheme (http, diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst index 7f7be11..63b64b9 100644 --- a/Doc/install/index.rst +++ b/Doc/install/index.rst @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ If you download a module source distribution, you can tell pretty quickly if it was packaged and distributed in the standard way, i.e. using the Distutils. First, the distribution's name and version number will be featured prominently in the name of the downloaded archive, e.g. :file:`foo-1.0.tar.gz` or -:file:`widget-0.9.7.zip`. Next, the archive will unpack into a similarly-named +:file:`widget-0.9.7.zip`. Next, the archive will unpack into a similarly named directory: :file:`foo-1.0` or :file:`widget-0.9.7`. Additionally, the distribution will contain a setup script :file:`setup.py`, and a file named :file:`README.txt` or possibly just :file:`README`, which should explain that diff --git a/Doc/library/asynchat.rst b/Doc/library/asynchat.rst index 7cc9d99..70753bf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asynchat.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asynchat.rst @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ connection requests. .. method:: async_chat.push_with_producer(producer) Takes a producer object and adds it to the producer queue associated with - the channel. When all currently-pushed producers have been exhausted the + the channel. When all currently pushed producers have been exhausted the channel will consume this producer's data by calling its :meth:`more` method and send the data to the remote endpoint. diff --git a/Doc/library/custominterp.rst b/Doc/library/custominterp.rst index 5eeced2..9ea9e90 100644 --- a/Doc/library/custominterp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/custominterp.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The modules described in this chapter allow writing interfaces similar to Python's interactive interpreter. If you want a Python interpreter that supports some special feature in addition to the Python language, you should look at the :mod:`code` module. (The :mod:`codeop` module is lower-level, used -to support compiling a possibly-incomplete chunk of Python code.) +to support compiling a possibly incomplete chunk of Python code.) The full list of modules described in this chapter is: diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 47627c0..c1bc624 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ -------------- -The :mod:`decimal` module provides support for fast correctly-rounded +The :mod:`decimal` module provides support for fast correctly rounded decimal floating point arithmetic. It offers several advantages over the :class:`float` datatype: @@ -1355,16 +1355,16 @@ In addition to the three supplied contexts, new contexts can be created with the With two arguments, compute ``x**y``. If ``x`` is negative then ``y`` must be integral. The result will be inexact unless ``y`` is integral and the result is finite and can be expressed exactly in 'precision' digits. - The rounding mode of the context is used. Results are always correctly-rounded + The rounding mode of the context is used. Results are always correctly rounded in the Python version. ``Decimal(0) ** Decimal(0)`` results in ``InvalidOperation``, and if ``InvalidOperation`` is not trapped, then results in ``Decimal('NaN')``. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 - The C module computes :meth:`power` in terms of the correctly-rounded + The C module computes :meth:`power` in terms of the correctly rounded :meth:`exp` and :meth:`ln` functions. The result is well-defined but - only "almost always correctly-rounded". + only "almost always correctly rounded". With three arguments, compute ``(x**y) % modulo``. For the three argument form, the following restrictions on the arguments hold: @@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ Q. Is the CPython implementation fast for large numbers? A. Yes. In the CPython and PyPy3 implementations, the C/CFFI versions of the decimal module integrate the high speed `libmpdec <https://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/doc/libmpdec/index.html>`_ library for -arbitrary precision correctly-rounded decimal floating point arithmetic [#]_. +arbitrary precision correctly rounded decimal floating point arithmetic [#]_. ``libmpdec`` uses `Karatsuba multiplication <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm>`_ for medium-sized numbers and the `Number Theoretic Transform diff --git a/Doc/library/doctest.rst b/Doc/library/doctest.rst index dbb54c9..e683ad0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/doctest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/doctest.rst @@ -566,12 +566,12 @@ doctest decides whether actual output matches an example's expected output: When specified, doctests expecting exceptions pass so long as an exception of the expected type is raised, even if the details - (message and fully-qualified exception name) don't match. + (message and fully qualified exception name) don't match. For example, an example expecting ``ValueError: 42`` will pass if the actual exception raised is ``ValueError: 3*14``, but will fail if, say, a :exc:`TypeError` is raised instead. - It will also ignore any fully-qualified name included before the + It will also ignore any fully qualified name included before the exception class, which can vary between implementations and versions of Python and the code/libraries in use. Hence, all three of these variations will work with the flag specified: diff --git a/Doc/library/glob.rst b/Doc/library/glob.rst index 4a29047..3c038b6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/glob.rst +++ b/Doc/library/glob.rst @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``. .. function:: glob(pathname, *, root_dir=None, dir_fd=None, recursive=False) - Return a possibly-empty list of path names that match *pathname*, which must be + Return a possibly empty list of path names that match *pathname*, which must be a string containing a path specification. *pathname* can be either absolute (like :file:`/usr/src/Python-1.5/Makefile`) or relative (like :file:`../../Tools/\*/\*.gif`), and can contain shell-style wildcards. Broken diff --git a/Doc/library/hmac.rst b/Doc/library/hmac.rst index 6f1b59b..b2ca045 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hmac.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hmac.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ An HMAC object has the following methods: .. warning:: - When comparing the output of :meth:`digest` to an externally-supplied + When comparing the output of :meth:`digest` to an externally supplied digest during a verification routine, it is recommended to use the :func:`compare_digest` function instead of the ``==`` operator to reduce the vulnerability to timing attacks. @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ An HMAC object has the following methods: .. warning:: - When comparing the output of :meth:`hexdigest` to an externally-supplied + When comparing the output of :meth:`hexdigest` to an externally supplied digest during a verification routine, it is recommended to use the :func:`compare_digest` function instead of the ``==`` operator to reduce the vulnerability to timing attacks. diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index 85c2347..3981cc6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ ABC hierarchy:: package. This attribute is not set on modules. - :attr:`__package__` - The fully-qualified name of the package under which the module was + The fully qualified name of the package under which the module was loaded as a submodule (or the empty string for top-level modules). For packages, it is the same as :attr:`__name__`. The :func:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` decorator can handle the @@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ find and load modules. (``__name__``) - A string for the fully-qualified name of the module. + A string for the fully qualified name of the module. .. attribute:: loader @@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ find and load modules. (``__package__``) - (Read-only) The fully-qualified name of the package under which the module + (Read-only) The fully qualified name of the package under which the module should be loaded as a submodule (or the empty string for top-level modules). For packages, it is the same as :attr:`__name__`. diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst index 44553af..56e6fff 100644 --- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst +++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ Classes and functions doesn't have its own annotations dict, returns an empty dict. * All accesses to object members and dict values are done using ``getattr()`` and ``dict.get()`` for safety. - * Always, always, always returns a freshly-created dict. + * Always, always, always returns a freshly created dict. ``eval_str`` controls whether or not values of type ``str`` are replaced with the result of calling :func:`eval()` on those values: diff --git a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst index 94d95d1..d74fc80 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst @@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ The following exception classes are defined in the :mod:`mailbox` module: Raised when some mailbox-related condition beyond the control of the program causes it to be unable to proceed, such as when failing to acquire a lock that - another program already holds a lock, or when a uniquely-generated file name + another program already holds a lock, or when a uniquely generated file name already exists. diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst index 0d686b1..47e6255 100644 --- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ help message: line-wrapping---\ :mod:`optparse` takes care of wrapping lines and making the help output look good. -* options that take a value indicate this fact in their automatically-generated +* options that take a value indicate this fact in their automatically generated help message, e.g. for the "mode" option:: -m MODE, --mode=MODE @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ help message: :mod:`optparse` converts the destination variable name to uppercase and uses that for the meta-variable. Sometimes, that's not what you want---for example, the ``--filename`` option explicitly sets ``metavar="FILE"``, - resulting in this automatically-generated option description:: + resulting in this automatically generated option description:: -f FILE, --filename=FILE @@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ intelligently and add conflicting options to it:: parser.add_option("-n", "--dry-run", ..., help="do no harm") parser.add_option("-n", "--noisy", ..., help="be noisy") -At this point, :mod:`optparse` detects that a previously-added option is already +At this point, :mod:`optparse` detects that a previously added option is already using the ``-n`` option string. Since ``conflict_handler`` is ``"resolve"``, it resolves the situation by removing ``-n`` from the earlier option's list of option strings. Now ``--dry-run`` is the only way for the user to activate @@ -1460,7 +1460,7 @@ that option. If the user asks for help, the help message will reflect that:: ... -n, --noisy be noisy -It's possible to whittle away the option strings for a previously-added option +It's possible to whittle away the option strings for a previously added option until there are none left, and the user has no way of invoking that option from the command-line. In that case, :mod:`optparse` removes that option completely, so it doesn't show up in help text or anywhere else. Carrying on with our diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index bd76798..6694768 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -2086,7 +2086,7 @@ features: The *mode* parameter is passed to :func:`mkdir` for creating the leaf directory; see :ref:`the mkdir() description <mkdir_modebits>` for how it - is interpreted. To set the file permission bits of any newly-created parent + is interpreted. To set the file permission bits of any newly created parent directories you can set the umask before invoking :func:`makedirs`. The file permission bits of existing parent directories are not changed. @@ -2117,7 +2117,7 @@ features: .. versionchanged:: 3.7 The *mode* argument no longer affects the file permission bits of - newly-created intermediate-level directories. + newly created intermediate-level directories. .. function:: mkfifo(path, mode=0o666, *, dir_fd=None) diff --git a/Doc/library/secrets.rst b/Doc/library/secrets.rst index eda4616..86fa35f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/secrets.rst +++ b/Doc/library/secrets.rst @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ randomness that your operating system provides. .. function:: choice(sequence) - Return a randomly-chosen element from a non-empty sequence. + Return a randomly chosen element from a non-empty sequence. .. function:: randbelow(n) @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Generate an eight-character alphanumeric password: Applications should not `store passwords in a recoverable format <http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/257.html>`_, whether plain text or encrypted. They should be salted and hashed - using a cryptographically-strong one-way (irreversible) hash function. + using a cryptographically strong one-way (irreversible) hash function. Generate a ten-character alphanumeric password with at least one diff --git a/Doc/library/select.rst b/Doc/library/select.rst index 46b5ff8..1c3d10e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/select.rst +++ b/Doc/library/select.rst @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ object. .. method:: devpoll.poll([timeout]) - Polls the set of registered file descriptors, and returns a possibly-empty list + Polls the set of registered file descriptors, and returns a possibly empty list containing ``(fd, event)`` 2-tuples for the descriptors that have events or errors to report. *fd* is the file descriptor, and *event* is a bitmask with bits set for the reported events for that descriptor --- :const:`POLLIN` for @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ linearly scanned again. :c:func:`select` is O(highest file descriptor), while .. method:: poll.poll([timeout]) - Polls the set of registered file descriptors, and returns a possibly-empty list + Polls the set of registered file descriptors, and returns a possibly empty list containing ``(fd, event)`` 2-tuples for the descriptors that have events or errors to report. *fd* is the file descriptor, and *event* is a bitmask with bits set for the reported events for that descriptor --- :const:`POLLIN` for diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 3a31543..cb672d9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Directory and files operations When *follow_symlinks* is false, and *src* is a symbolic link, :func:`copy2` attempts to copy all metadata from the - *src* symbolic link to the newly-created *dst* symbolic link. + *src* symbolic link to the newly created *dst* symbolic link. However, this functionality is not available on all platforms. On platforms where some or all of this functionality is unavailable, :func:`copy2` will preserve all the metadata diff --git a/Doc/library/smtpd.rst b/Doc/library/smtpd.rst index 8fd009e..ac48e1a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/smtpd.rst +++ b/Doc/library/smtpd.rst @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ SMTPChannel Objects .. attribute:: fqdn - Holds the fully-qualified domain name of the server as returned by + Holds the fully qualified domain name of the server as returned by :func:`socket.getfqdn`. .. attribute:: peer diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 1100baf..bbf2ea1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ created. Socket addresses are represented as follows: - A string or a tuple ``(id, unit)`` is used for the :const:`SYSPROTO_CONTROL` protocol of the :const:`PF_SYSTEM` family. The string is the name of a - kernel control using a dynamically-assigned ID. The tuple can be used if ID + kernel control using a dynamically assigned ID. The tuple can be used if ID and unit number of the kernel control are known or if a registered ID is used. @@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: .. function:: getnameinfo(sockaddr, flags) Translate a socket address *sockaddr* into a 2-tuple ``(host, port)``. Depending - on the settings of *flags*, the result can contain a fully-qualified domain name + on the settings of *flags*, the result can contain a fully qualified domain name or numeric address representation in *host*. Similarly, *port* can contain a string port name or a numeric port number. diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst index 816b882..b0be676 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ Connection Objects If returning a tuple doesn't suffice and you want name-based access to columns, you should consider setting :attr:`row_factory` to the - highly-optimized :class:`sqlite3.Row` type. :class:`Row` provides both + highly optimized :class:`sqlite3.Row` type. :class:`Row` provides both index-based and case-insensitive name-based access to columns with almost no memory overhead. It will probably be better than your own custom dictionary-based approach or even a db_row based solution. diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index 25e2620..c1888d4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ The module defines the following exception and functions: Iteratively unpack from the buffer *buffer* according to the format string *format*. This function returns an iterator which will read - equally-sized chunks from the buffer until all its contents have been + equally sized chunks from the buffer until all its contents have been consumed. The buffer's size in bytes must be a multiple of the size required by the format, as reflected by :func:`calcsize`. diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index d0f8864..45fcfc7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ functions. .. warning:: - For maximum reliability, use a fully-qualified path for the executable. + For maximum reliability, use a fully qualified path for the executable. To search for an unqualified name on :envvar:`PATH`, use :meth:`shutil.which`. On all platforms, passing :data:`sys.executable` is the recommended way to launch the current Python interpreter again, diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 6afb839..44f34ab 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ There are three tar formats that can be created with the :mod:`tarfile` module: files and stores pathnames in a portable way. Modern tar implementations, including GNU tar, bsdtar/libarchive and star, fully support extended *pax* features; some old or unmaintained libraries may not, but should treat - *pax* archives as if they were in the universally-supported *ustar* format. + *pax* archives as if they were in the universally supported *ustar* format. It is the current default format for new archives. It extends the existing *ustar* format with extra headers for information diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.ttk.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.ttk.rst index 2db4c0f..3e31fbf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tkinter.ttk.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.ttk.rst @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ methods :meth:`tkinter.Widget.cget` and :meth:`tkinter.Widget.configure`. Modify or inquire widget state. If *statespec* is specified, sets the widget state according to it and return a new *statespec* indicating which flags were changed. If *statespec* is not specified, returns - the currently-enabled state flags. + the currently enabled state flags. *statespec* will usually be a list or a tuple. @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ Notebook Ttk Notebook widget manages a collection of windows and displays a single one at a time. Each child window is associated with a tab, which the user -may select to change the currently-displayed window. +may select to change the currently displayed window. Options @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ of the following forms: * An integer between zero and the number of tabs * The name of a child window * A positional specification of the form "@x,y", which identifies the tab -* The literal string "current", which identifies the currently-selected tab +* The literal string "current", which identifies the currently selected tab * The literal string "end", which returns the number of tabs (only valid for :meth:`Notebook.index`) @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ ttk.Notebook Selects the specified *tab_id*. The associated child window will be displayed, and the - previously-selected window (if different) is unmapped. If *tab_id* is + previously selected window (if different) is unmapped. If *tab_id* is omitted, returns the widget name of the currently selected pane. diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 63248b3..9c2c37a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ involved. For example, the :envvar:`http_proxy` environment variable is read to obtain the HTTP proxy's URL. This example replaces the default :class:`ProxyHandler` with one that uses -programmatically-supplied proxy URLs, and adds proxy authorization support with +programmatically supplied proxy URLs, and adds proxy authorization support with :class:`ProxyBasicAuthHandler`. :: proxy_handler = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://www.example.com:3128/'}) diff --git a/Doc/library/uuid.rst b/Doc/library/uuid.rst index ddfbbda..a71fe7a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/uuid.rst +++ b/Doc/library/uuid.rst @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ The :mod:`uuid` module defines the following namespace identifiers for use with .. data:: NAMESPACE_DNS - When this namespace is specified, the *name* string is a fully-qualified domain + When this namespace is specified, the *name* string is a fully qualified domain name. diff --git a/Doc/library/warnings.rst b/Doc/library/warnings.rst index 8f2a5ac..30fc017 100644 --- a/Doc/library/warnings.rst +++ b/Doc/library/warnings.rst @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ the disposition of the match. Each entry is a tuple of the form (*action*, category must be a subclass in order to match. * *module* is a string containing a regular expression that the start of the - fully-qualified module name must match, case-sensitively. In :option:`-W` and + fully qualified module name must match, case-sensitively. In :option:`-W` and :envvar:`PYTHONWARNINGS`, *module* is a literal string that the - fully-qualified module name must be equal to (case-sensitively), ignoring any + fully qualified module name must be equal to (case-sensitively), ignoring any whitespace at the start or end of *module*. * *lineno* is an integer that the line number where the warning occurred must diff --git a/Doc/library/wsgiref.rst b/Doc/library/wsgiref.rst index e92a689..2e0a16e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/wsgiref.rst +++ b/Doc/library/wsgiref.rst @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ request. (E.g., using the :func:`shift_path_info` function from .. method:: WSGIServer.get_app() - Returns the currently-set application callable. + Returns the currently set application callable. Normally, however, you do not need to use these additional methods, as :meth:`set_app` is normally called by :func:`make_server`, and the @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ input, output, and error streams. .. method:: BaseHandler.setup_environ() - Set the :attr:`environ` attribute to a fully-populated WSGI environment. The + Set the :attr:`environ` attribute to a fully populated WSGI environment. The default implementation uses all of the above methods and attributes, plus the :meth:`get_stdin`, :meth:`get_stderr`, and :meth:`add_cgi_vars` methods and the :attr:`wsgi_file_wrapper` attribute. It also inserts a ``SERVER_SOFTWARE`` key diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.rst b/Doc/library/xml.rst index e3b3516..20b0905 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.rst @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ quadratic blowup entity expansion entity expansion, too. Instead of nested entities it repeats one large entity with a couple of thousand chars over and over again. The attack isn't as efficient as the exponential case but it avoids triggering parser countermeasures - that forbid deeply-nested entities. + that forbid deeply nested entities. external entity expansion Entity declarations can contain more than just text for replacement. They can diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst index 8d9db53..0d9bfd5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.client.rst @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire. The following parameters govern the use of the returned proxy instance. If *allow_none* is true, the Python constant ``None`` will be translated into XML; the default behaviour is for ``None`` to raise a :exc:`TypeError`. This is - a commonly-used extension to the XML-RPC specification, but isn't supported by + a commonly used extension to the XML-RPC specification, but isn't supported by all clients and servers; see `http://ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.php <https://web.archive.org/web/20130120074804/http://ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.php>`_ for a description. diff --git a/Doc/library/zlib.rst b/Doc/library/zlib.rst index 6758c61..84076b2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zlib.rst @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Decompression objects support the following methods and attributes: A boolean indicating whether the end of the compressed data stream has been reached. - This makes it possible to distinguish between a properly-formed compressed + This makes it possible to distinguish between a properly formed compressed stream, and an incomplete or truncated one. .. versionadded:: 3.3 diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index a5739e6..ea9192b 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ Basic customization Typical implementations create a new instance of the class by invoking the superclass's :meth:`__new__` method using ``super().__new__(cls[, ...])`` - with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly-created instance + with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly created instance as necessary before returning it. If :meth:`__new__` is invoked during object construction and it returns an @@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ Basic customization predictable between repeated invocations of Python. This is intended to provide protection against a denial-of-service caused - by carefully-chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a + by carefully chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a dict insertion, O(n\ :sup:`2`) complexity. See http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for details. diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst index 9c3c866..92ae9fd 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/import.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ the module. .. attribute:: __name__ - The ``__name__`` attribute must be set to the fully-qualified name of + The ``__name__`` attribute must be set to the fully qualified name of the module. This name is used to uniquely identify the module in the import system. diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 0dad31f..1a2cb41 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ the final value of the whole string. Top-level format specifiers may include nested replacement fields. These nested fields may include their own conversion fields and :ref:`format specifiers -<formatspec>`, but may not include more deeply-nested replacement fields. The +<formatspec>`, but may not include more deeply nested replacement fields. The :ref:`format specifier mini-language <formatspec>` is the same as that used by the :meth:`str.format` method. diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 58b06eb..f27abe4 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ initial state. Therefore a class may define a special method named self.data = [] When a class defines an :meth:`__init__` method, class instantiation -automatically invokes :meth:`__init__` for the newly-created class instance. So +automatically invokes :meth:`__init__` for the newly created class instance. So in this example, a new, initialized instance can be obtained by:: x = MyClass() diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 1f1ef28..3242382 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ notation. :: This is particularly useful in combination with the built-in function :func:`vars`, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables. -As an example, the following lines produce a tidily-aligned +As an example, the following lines produce a tidily aligned set of columns giving integers and their squares and cubes:: >>> for x in range(1, 11): diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index c4f65eb..b1e297d 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ Miscellaneous options between repeated invocations of Python. Hash randomization is intended to provide protection against a - denial-of-service caused by carefully-chosen inputs that exploit the worst + denial-of-service caused by carefully chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a dict construction, O(n\ :sup:`2`) complexity. See http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for details. @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ Miscellaneous options whether the actual warning category of the message is a subclass of the specified warning category. - The *module* field matches the (fully-qualified) module name; this match is + The *module* field matches the (fully qualified) module name; this match is case-sensitive. The *lineno* field matches the line number, where zero matches all line diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst index 0e1cf1f..e40218e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Python's development never completely stops between releases, and a steady flow of bug fixes and improvements are always being submitted. A host of minor fixes, a few optimizations, additional docstrings, and better error messages went into 2.0; to list them all would be impossible, but they're certainly significant. -Consult the publicly-available CVS logs if you want to see the full list. This +Consult the publicly available CVS logs if you want to see the full list. This progress is due to the five developers working for PythonLabs are now getting paid to spend their days fixing bugs, and also due to the improved communication resulting from moving to SourceForge. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst index cf55520..745b0aa 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ creates a :class:`LogRecord` instance that is sent to any number of different of filters, and each filter can cause the :class:`LogRecord` to be ignored or can modify the record before passing it along. When they're finally output, :class:`LogRecord` instances are converted to text by a :class:`Formatter` -class. All of these classes can be replaced by your own specially-written +class. All of these classes can be replaced by your own specially written classes. With all of these features the :mod:`logging` package should provide enough diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst index 7e11c98..ddfac1a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ having the entire data set in memory at one time. List comprehensions don't fit into this picture very well because they produce a Python list object containing all of the items. This unavoidably pulls all of the objects into memory, which can be a problem if your data set is very large. When trying to write a -functionally-styled program, it would be natural to write something like:: +functionally styled program, it would be natural to write something like:: links = [link for link in get_all_links() if not link.followed] for link in links: @@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.4 makes to the core Python language. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) -* Encountering a failure while importing a module no longer leaves a partially-initialized +* Encountering a failure while importing a module no longer leaves a partially initialized module object in ``sys.modules``. The incomplete module object left behind would fool further imports of the same module into succeeding, leading to confusing errors. (Fixed by Tim Peters.) @@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ code: * The :mod:`tarfile` module now generates GNU-format tar files by default. * Encountering a failure while importing a module no longer leaves a - partially-initialized module object in ``sys.modules``. + partially initialized module object in ``sys.modules``. * :const:`None` is now a constant; code that binds a new value to the name ``None`` is now a syntax error. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst index 597eaf5..1b1fb3b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ release schedule. Python 2.5 was released on September 19, 2006. The changes in Python 2.5 are an interesting mix of language and library improvements. The library enhancements will be more important to Python's user -community, I think, because several widely-useful packages were added. New +community, I think, because several widely useful packages were added. New modules include ElementTree for XML processing (:mod:`xml.etree`), the SQLite database module (:mod:`sqlite`), and the :mod:`ctypes` module for calling C functions. @@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the details. received several enhancements and a number of bugfixes. You can now set the maximum size in bytes of a field by calling the ``csv.field_size_limit(new_limit)`` function; omitting the *new_limit* - argument will return the currently-set limit. The :class:`reader` class now has + argument will return the currently set limit. The :class:`reader` class now has a :attr:`line_num` attribute that counts the number of physical lines read from the source; records can span multiple physical lines, so :attr:`line_num` is not the same as the number of records read. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 0dbb5e5..7524da8 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ PEP 370: Per-user ``site-packages`` Directory When you run Python, the module search path ``sys.path`` usually includes a directory whose path ends in ``"site-packages"``. This -directory is intended to hold locally-installed packages available to +directory is intended to hold locally installed packages available to all users using a machine or a particular site installation. Python 2.6 introduces a convention for user-specific site directories. @@ -2460,7 +2460,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. The function must take a filename and return true if the file should be excluded or false if it should be archived. The function is applied to both the name initially passed to :meth:`add` - and to the names of files in recursively-added directories. + and to the names of files in recursively added directories. (All changes contributed by Lars Gustäbel). @@ -2513,7 +2513,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Contributed by Brett Cannon.) * The :mod:`textwrap` module can now preserve existing whitespace - at the beginnings and ends of the newly-created lines + at the beginnings and ends of the newly created lines by specifying ``drop_whitespace=False`` as an argument:: diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index 2e9fdd0..b74a456 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ Comparing an :class:`~collections.OrderedDict` with a regular dictionary ignores the insertion order and just compares the keys and values. How does the :class:`~collections.OrderedDict` work? It maintains a -doubly-linked list of keys, appending new keys to the list as they're inserted. +doubly linked list of keys, appending new keys to the list as they're inserted. A secondary dictionary maps keys to their corresponding list node, so deletion doesn't have to traverse the entire linked list and therefore remains O(1). @@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ GvR worked on merging them into Python's version of :mod:`unittest`. * :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertAlmostEqual` and :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertNotAlmostEqual` test whether *first* and *second* are approximately equal. This method - can either round their difference to an optionally-specified number + can either round their difference to an optionally specified number of *places* (the default is 7) and compare it to zero, or require the difference to be smaller than a supplied *delta* value. @@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ Port-Specific Changes: Windows * The :mod:`_winreg` module for accessing the registry now implements the :func:`~_winreg.CreateKeyEx` and :func:`~_winreg.DeleteKeyEx` - functions, extended versions of previously-supported functions that + functions, extended versions of previously supported functions that take several extra arguments. The :func:`~_winreg.DisableReflectionKey`, :func:`~_winreg.EnableReflectionKey`, and :func:`~_winreg.QueryReflectionKey` were also tested and documented. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst index 4da3507..63b2474 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by :data:`string.ascii_letters` etc. instead. (The reason for the removal is that :data:`string.letters` and friends had locale-specific behavior, which is a bad idea for such - attractively-named global "constants".) + attractively named global "constants".) * Renamed module :mod:`__builtin__` to :mod:`builtins` (removing the underscores, adding an 's'). The :data:`__builtins__` variable diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 361e6db..0f98946 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ PEP 405: Virtual Environments Virtual environments help create separate Python setups while sharing a system-wide base install, for ease of maintenance. Virtual environments -have their own set of private site packages (i.e. locally-installed +have their own set of private site packages (i.e. locally installed libraries), and are optionally segregated from the system-wide site packages. Their concept and implementation are inspired by the popular ``virtualenv`` third-party package, but benefit from tighter integration @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ an IP address associated with a specific IP subnet). lzma ---- -The newly-added :mod:`lzma` module provides data compression and decompression +The newly added :mod:`lzma` module provides data compression and decompression using the LZMA algorithm, including support for the ``.xz`` and ``.lzma`` file formats. @@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ decimal C-module and libmpdec written by Stefan Krah. The new C version of the decimal module integrates the high speed libmpdec -library for arbitrary precision correctly-rounded decimal floating point +library for arbitrary precision correctly rounded decimal floating point arithmetic. libmpdec conforms to IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification. Performance gains range from 10x for database applications to 100x for @@ -1158,8 +1158,8 @@ API changes in order to obtain a rounded or inexact value. -* The power function in decimal.py is always correctly-rounded. In the - C version, it is defined in terms of the correctly-rounded +* The power function in decimal.py is always correctly rounded. In the + C version, it is defined in terms of the correctly rounded :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.exp` and :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.ln` functions, but the final result is only "almost always correctly rounded". @@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ zlib ---- New attribute :attr:`zlib.Decompress.eof` makes it possible to distinguish -between a properly-formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one. +between a properly formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one. (Contributed by Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`12646`.) New attribute :attr:`zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION` reports the version string of diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 0405f2b..e179bb9 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ The :class:`~unittest.TestCase` class has a new method, :keyword:`with` block becomes a "sub-test". This context manager allows a test method to dynamically generate subtests by, say, calling the ``subTest`` context manager inside a loop. A single test method can thereby produce an -indefinite number of separately-identified and separately-counted tests, all of +indefinite number of separately identified and separately counted tests, all of which will run even if one or more of them fail. For example:: class NumbersTest(unittest.TestCase): @@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ Significant Optimizations ``malloc`` in ``obmalloc``. Artificial benchmarks show about a 3% memory savings. -* :func:`os.urandom` now uses a lazily-opened persistent file descriptor +* :func:`os.urandom` now uses a lazily opened persistent file descriptor so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in parallel from multiple threads. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`18756`.) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 1ee8cfa..7d6e7f2 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ PEP 539: New C API for Thread-Local Storage While Python provides a C API for thread-local storage support; the existing :ref:`Thread Local Storage (TLS) API <thread-local-storage-api>` has used :c:type:`int` to represent TLS keys across all platforms. This has not -generally been a problem for officially-support platforms, but that is neither +generally been a problem for officially support platforms, but that is neither POSIX-compliant, nor portable in any practical sense. :pep:`539` changes this by providing a new :ref:`Thread Specific Storage (TSS) @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ of :func:`os.writev` and :func:`os.pwrite`). (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`31368`.) The mode argument of :func:`os.makedirs` no longer affects the file -permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories. +permission bits of newly created intermediate-level directories. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`19930`.) :func:`os.dup2` now returns the new file descriptor. Previously, ``None`` @@ -2296,7 +2296,7 @@ Changes in the Python API (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29192`.) * The *mode* argument of :func:`os.makedirs` no longer affects the file - permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories. + permission bits of newly created intermediate-level directories. To set their file permission bits you can set the umask before invoking ``makedirs()``. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`19930`.) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a3.rst index 4f182e8..699a0dd 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a3.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a3.rst @@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ as a positional-only argument. .. nonce: qLkNh8 .. section: Library -Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply-inherited enum +Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply inherited enum .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a4.rst index 214f9e5..74c0af3 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a4.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a4.rst @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ In ``importlib.metadata``: - ``EntryPoint`` objects now expose a ``.dist`` object referencing the ``Distribution`` when constructed from a ``Distribution``. - Add support for package discovery under package normalization rules. - The object returned by ``metadata()`` now has a -formally-defined protocol called ``PackageMetadata`` with declared support +formally defined protocol called ``PackageMetadata`` with declared support for the ``.get_all()`` method. - Synced with importlib_metadata 3.3. .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a1.rst index 244bb37..e99c45e 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a1.rst @@ -3149,7 +3149,7 @@ they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool. .. section: Library The mode argument of os.makedirs() no longer affects the file permission -bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories. +bits of newly created intermediate-level directories. .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst index 09b858d..d95055a 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ the "n" formatter. .. nonce: gjm1LO .. section: Core and Builtins -Fix a possible segfault involving a newly-created coroutine. Patch by +Fix a possible segfault involving a newly created coroutine. Patch by Zackery Spytz. .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a2.rst index 1c0abab..2231261 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a2.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a2.rst @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Add *headers* optional keyword-only parameter to .. section: Library Fix C implementation of pickle.loads to use importlib's locking mechanisms, -and thereby avoid using partially-loaded modules. Patch by Tim Burgess. +and thereby avoid using partially loaded modules. Patch by Tim Burgess. .. |