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-rw-r--r--Doc/howto/functional.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/collections.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/decimal.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/subprocess.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst38
5 files changed, 28 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
index d589f36..4f606d7 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ Here's a sample usage of the ``generate_ints()`` generator:
>>> gen = generate_ints(3)
>>> gen
- <generator object at ...>
+ <generator object generate_ints at ...>
>>> gen.next()
0
>>> gen.next()
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index a568d44..eaab33e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ For example::
class is similar to bags or multisets in other languages.
Elements are counted from an *iterable* or initialized from another
- *mapping* (or counter)::
+ *mapping* (or counter):
>>> c = Counter() # a new, empty counter
>>> c = Counter('gallahad') # a new counter from an iterable
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ For example::
>>> c = Counter(cats=4, dogs=8) # a new counter from keyword args
Counter objects have a dictionary interface except that they return a zero
- count for missing items instead of raising a :exc:`KeyError`::
+ count for missing items instead of raising a :exc:`KeyError`:
>>> c = Counter(['eggs', 'ham'])
>>> c['bacon'] # count of a missing element is zero
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ For example::
Return a list of the *n* most common elements and their counts from the
most common to the least. If *n* is not specified, :func:`most_common`
returns *all* elements in the counter. Elements with equal counts are
- ordered arbitrarily::
+ ordered arbitrarily:
>>> Counter('abracadabra').most_common(3)
[('a', 5), ('r', 2), ('b', 2)]
diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index ebe0d8c..8d11315 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@ the :const:`Inexact` trap is set, it is also useful for validation:
>>> Decimal('3.214').quantize(TWOPLACES, context=Context(traps=[Inexact]))
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
- Inexact
+ Inexact: None
Q. Once I have valid two place inputs, how do I maintain that invariant
throughout an application?
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index c95566b..4c4f4ae 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ This module also defines two shortcut functions:
:attr:`returncode`
attribute and output in the :attr:`output` attribute.
- The arguments are the same as for the :class:`Popen` constructor. Example:
+ The arguments are the same as for the :class:`Popen` constructor. Example::
>>> subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"])
'crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 18 2007 /dev/null\n'
The stdout argument is not allowed as it is used internally.
- To capture standard error in the result, use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT.
+ To capture standard error in the result, use ``stderr=subprocess.STDOUT``::
>>> subprocess.check_output(
["/bin/sh", "-c", "ls non_existent_file ; exit 0"],
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index f7dab79..24d4549 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -220,21 +220,24 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
* New class: the :class:`Counter` class in the :mod:`collections` module is
useful for tallying data. :class:`Counter` instances behave mostly
like dictionaries but return zero for missing keys instead of
- raising a :exc:`KeyError`::
-
- >>> from collections import Counter
- >>> c=Counter()
- >>> for letter in 'here is a sample of english text':
- ... c[letter] += 1
- ...
- >>> c
- Counter({' ': 6, 'e': 5, 's': 3, 'a': 2, 'i': 2, 'h': 2,
- 'l': 2, 't': 2, 'g': 1, 'f': 1, 'm': 1, 'o': 1, 'n': 1,
- 'p': 1, 'r': 1, 'x': 1})
- >>> c['e']
- 5
- >>> c['z']
- 0
+ raising a :exc:`KeyError`:
+
+ .. doctest::
+ :options: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
+
+ >>> from collections import Counter
+ >>> c = Counter()
+ >>> for letter in 'here is a sample of english text':
+ ... c[letter] += 1
+ ...
+ >>> c
+ Counter({' ': 6, 'e': 5, 's': 3, 'a': 2, 'i': 2, 'h': 2,
+ 'l': 2, 't': 2, 'g': 1, 'f': 1, 'm': 1, 'o': 1, 'n': 1,
+ 'p': 1, 'r': 1, 'x': 1})
+ >>> c['e']
+ 5
+ >>> c['z']
+ 0
There are two additional :class:`Counter` methods: :meth:`most_common`
returns the N most common elements and their counts, and :meth:`elements`
@@ -247,7 +250,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
'a', 'a', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'g', 'f', 'i', 'i',
'h', 'h', 'm', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'n', 'p', 's',
- 's', 's', 'r', 't', 't', 'x']
+ 's', 's', 'r', 't', 't', 'x'
Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1696199`.
@@ -257,7 +260,8 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
renamed to legal names that are derived from the field's
position within the list of fields:
- >>> T=namedtuple('T', ['field1', '$illegal', 'for', 'field2'], rename=True)
+ >>> from collections import namedtuple
+ >>> T = namedtuple('T', ['field1', '$illegal', 'for', 'field2'], rename=True)
>>> T._fields
('field1', '_1', '_2', 'field2')