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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index af7991d..023c757 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -528,11 +528,11 @@ all users using a machine or a particular site installation. Python 2.6 introduces a convention for user-specific site directories. The directory varies depending on the platform: -* Unix and MacOS: :file:`~/.local/` +* Unix and Mac OS X: :file:`~/.local/` * Windows: :file:`%APPDATA%/Python` Within this directory, there will be version-specific subdirectories, -such as :file:`lib/python2.6/site-packages` on Unix/MacOS and +such as :file:`lib/python2.6/site-packages` on Unix/Mac OS and :file:`Python26/site-packages` on Windows. If you don't like the default directory, it can be overridden by an @@ -2784,12 +2784,12 @@ Ippolito. The :mod:`plistlib` module: A Property-List Parser -------------------------------------------------- -The ``.plist`` format is commonly used on MacOS X to +The ``.plist`` format is commonly used on Mac OS X to store basic data types (numbers, strings, lists, and dictionaries) by serializing them into an XML-based format. It resembles the XML-RPC serialization of data types. -Despite being primarily used on MacOS X, the format +Despite being primarily used on Mac OS X, the format has nothing Mac-specific about it and the Python implementation works on any platform that Python supports, so the :mod:`plistlib` module has been promoted to the standard library. @@ -2905,7 +2905,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: :file:`PCbuild` directory for the build files. (Implemented by Christian Heimes.) -* On MacOS X, Python 2.6 can be compiled as a 4-way universal build. +* On Mac OS X, Python 2.6 can be compiled as a 4-way universal build. The :program:`configure` script can take a :option:`--with-universal-archs=[32-bit|64-bit|all]` switch, controlling whether the binaries are built for 32-bit @@ -3057,7 +3057,7 @@ Port-Specific Changes: Windows .. ====================================================================== -Port-Specific Changes: MacOS X +Port-Specific Changes: Mac OS X ----------------------------------- * When compiling a framework build of Python, you can now specify the @@ -3069,7 +3069,7 @@ Port-Specific Changes: MacOS X :func:`macostools.touched` function to be removed because it depended on the :mod:`macfs` module. (:issue:`1490190`) -* Many other MacOS modules have been deprecated and will removed in +* Many other Mac OS modules have been deprecated and will removed in Python 3.0: :mod:`_builtinSuites`, :mod:`aepack`, |