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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 2e47c59..091cae4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ numbers of mixed type use the same rule. [#]_ The constructors :func:`int`, :func:`long`, :func:`float`, and :func:`complex` can be used to produce numbers of a specific type. -All builtin numeric types support the following operations. See +All built-in numeric types support the following operations. See :ref:`power` and later sections for the operators' priorities. +--------------------+---------------------------------+--------+ @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ must have the enclosing parentheses, such as ``a, b, c`` or ``()``. A single item tuple must have a trailing comma, such as ``(d,)``. Buffer objects are not directly supported by Python syntax, but can be created -by calling the builtin function :func:`buffer`. They don't support +by calling the built-in function :func:`buffer`. They don't support concatenation or repetition. Objects of type xrange are similar to buffers in that there is no specific syntax to @@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ set``. Being an unordered collection, sets do not record element position or order of insertion. Accordingly, sets do not support indexing, slicing, or other sequence-like behavior. -There are currently two builtin set types, :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset`. +There are currently two built-in set types, :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset`. The :class:`set` type is mutable --- the contents can be changed using methods like :meth:`add` and :meth:`remove`. Since it is mutable, it has no hash value and cannot be used as either a dictionary key or as an element of another set. |