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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 7ef4153..4e166d1 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ need for two different argument passing mechanisms as in Pascal. .. _tut-scopes: -Python Scopes and Name Spaces -============================= +Python Scopes and Namespaces +============================ Before introducing classes, I first have to tell you something about Python's scope rules. Class definitions play some neat tricks with namespaces, and you @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ attributes is possible. Module attributes are writable: you can write :keyword:`del` statement. For example, ``del modname.the_answer`` will remove the attribute :attr:`the_answer` from the object named by ``modname``. -Name spaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes. The +Namespaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes. The namespace containing the built-in names is created when the Python interpreter starts up, and is never deleted. The global namespace for a module is created when the module definition is read in; normally, module namespaces also last @@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ data attribute, its class is searched. If the name denotes a valid class attribute that is a function object, a method object is created by packing (pointers to) the instance object and the function object just found together in an abstract object: this is the method object. When the method object is called -with an argument list, it is unpacked again, a new argument list is constructed -from the instance object and the original argument list, and the function object -is called with this new argument list. +with an argument list, a new argument list is constructed from the instance +object and the argument list, and the function object is called with this new +argument list. .. _tut-remarks: |