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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst index db8f9df..4d48291 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst @@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ Here's a small but realistic example:: server_log = functools.partial(log, subsystem='server') server_log('Unable to open socket') -Here's another example, from a program that uses PyGTK. Here a context- -sensitive pop-up menu is being constructed dynamically. The callback provided +Here's another example, from a program that uses PyGTK. Here a context-sensitive +pop-up menu is being constructed dynamically. The callback provided for the menu option is a partially applied version of the :meth:`open_item` method, where the first argument has been provided. :: @@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ method, where the first argument has been provided. :: popup_menu.append( ("Open", open_func, 1) ) Another function in the :mod:`functools` module is the -``update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped)`` function that helps you write well- -behaved decorators. :func:`update_wrapper` copies the name, module, and +``update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped)`` function that helps you write +well-behaved decorators. :func:`update_wrapper` copies the name, module, and docstring attribute to a wrapper function so that tracebacks inside the wrapped function are easier to understand. For example, you might write:: @@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ can't protect against having your submodule's name being used for a new module added in a future version of Python. In Python 2.5, you can switch :keyword:`import`'s behaviour to absolute imports -using a ``from __future__ import absolute_import`` directive. This absolute- -import behaviour will become the default in a future version (probably Python +using a ``from __future__ import absolute_import`` directive. This absolute-import +behaviour will become the default in a future version (probably Python 2.7). Once absolute imports are the default, ``import string`` will always find the standard library's version. It's suggested that users should begin using absolute imports as much as possible, so it's preferable to begin writing @@ -602,8 +602,8 @@ be used with the ':keyword:`with`' statement. File objects are one example:: ... more processing code ... After this statement has executed, the file object in *f* will have been -automatically closed, even if the :keyword:`for` loop raised an exception part- -way through the block. +automatically closed, even if the :keyword:`for` loop raised an exception +part-way through the block. .. note:: @@ -1558,8 +1558,8 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the details. You can also pack and unpack data to and from buffer objects directly using the ``pack_into(buffer, offset, v1, v2, ...)`` and ``unpack_from(buffer, - offset)`` methods. This lets you store data directly into an array or a memory- - mapped file. + offset)`` methods. This lets you store data directly into an array or a + memory-mapped file. (:class:`Struct` objects were implemented by Bob Ippolito at the NeedForSpeed sprint. Support for buffer objects was added by Martin Blais, also at the @@ -2281,8 +2281,8 @@ Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this article: Georg Brandl, -Nick Coghlan, Phillip J. Eby, Lars Gustäbel, Raymond Hettinger, Ralf W. Grosse- -Kunstleve, Kent Johnson, Iain Lowe, Martin von Löwis, Fredrik Lundh, Andrew +Nick Coghlan, Phillip J. Eby, Lars Gustäbel, Raymond Hettinger, Ralf W. +Grosse-Kunstleve, Kent Johnson, Iain Lowe, Martin von Löwis, Fredrik Lundh, Andrew McNamara, Skip Montanaro, Gustavo Niemeyer, Paul Prescod, James Pryor, Mike Rovner, Scott Weikart, Barry Warsaw, Thomas Wouters. |