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-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/classes.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst4
5 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 7d106fc..191e95c 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ arguments)``. This is occasionally useful to clients as well. (Note that this
only works if the base class is defined or imported directly in the global
scope.)
-Python has two builtin functions that work with inheritance:
+Python has two built-in functions that work with inheritance:
* Use :func:`isinstance` to check an object's type: ``isinstance(obj, int)``
will be ``True`` only if ``obj.__class__`` is :class:`int` or some class
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 75163d0..f5a464b 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ A more verbose version of this snippet shows the flow explicitly::
print(row[i], end="")
print()
-In real world, you should prefer builtin functions to complex flow statements.
+In real world, you should prefer built-in functions to complex flow statements.
The :func:`zip` function would do a great job for this use case::
>>> list(zip(*mat))
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
index f41be3a..b6e04ff 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ display ::
>>> 0.1
0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625
-instead! The Python prompt uses the builtin :func:`repr` function to obtain a
+instead! The Python prompt uses the built-in :func:`repr` function to obtain a
string version of everything it displays. For floats, ``repr(float)`` rounds
the true decimal value to 17 significant digits, giving ::
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ thing in all languages that support your hardware's floating-point arithmetic
(although some languages may not *display* the difference by default, or in all
output modes).
-Python's builtin :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and
+Python's built-in :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and
you may wish to use that instead. It's unusual for ``eval(str(x))`` to
reproduce *x*, but the output may be more pleasant to look at::
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 9b90323..eabf662 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ notation.::
This is particularly useful in combination with the new built-in :func:`vars`
function, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables.
-For a complete overview of string formating with :meth:`str.format`, see
+For a complete overview of string formatting with :meth:`str.format`, see
:ref:`formatstrings`.
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
index ebb5233..de33259 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ operating system::
>>> os.chdir('/server/accesslogs')
Be sure to use the ``import os`` style instead of ``from os import *``. This
-will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the builtin :func:`open` function which
+will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the built-in :func:`open` function which
operates much differently.
.. index:: builtin: help
-The builtin :func:`dir` and :func:`help` functions are useful as interactive
+The built-in :func:`dir` and :func:`help` functions are useful as interactive
aids for working with large modules like :mod:`os`::
>>> import os