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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst index b79ce7f..c748993 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ changed. single "euro" character. (Of course, this change only affects raw string literals; the euro character is ``'\u20ac'`` in Python 3.0.) -* The builtin :class:`basestring` abstract type was removed. Use +* The built-in :class:`basestring` abstract type was removed. Use :class:`str` instead. The :class:`str` and :class:`bytes` types don't have functionality enough in common to warrant a shared base class. The ``2to3`` tool (see below) replaces every occurrence of @@ -383,10 +383,10 @@ New Syntax literals (``0720``) are gone. * New binary literals, e.g. ``0b1010`` (already in 2.6), and - there is a new corresponding builtin function, :func:`bin`. + there is a new corresponding built-in function, :func:`bin`. * Bytes literals are introduced with a leading ``b`` or ``B``, and - there is a new corresponding builtin function, :func:`bytes`. + there is a new corresponding built-in function, :func:`bytes`. Changed Syntax -------------- @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ consulted for longer descriptions. * :ref:`pep-3116`. The :mod:`io` module is now the standard way of doing file I/O, and the initial values of :data:`sys.stdin`, :data:`sys.stdout` and :data:`sys.stderr` are now instances of - :class:`io.TextIOBase`. The builtin :func:`open` function is now an + :class:`io.TextIOBase`. The built-in :func:`open` function is now an alias for :func:`io.open` and has additional keyword arguments *encoding*, *errors*, *newline* and *closefd*. Also note that an invalid *mode* argument now raises :exc:`ValueError`, not @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ consulted for longer descriptions. * :ref:`pep-3119`. The :mod:`abc` module and the ABCs defined in the :mod:`collections` module plays a somewhat more prominent role in - the language now, and builtin collection types like :class:`dict` + the language now, and built-in collection types like :class:`dict` and :class:`list` conform to the :class:`collections.MutableMapping` and :class:`collections.MutableSequence` ABCs, respectively. @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ review: Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by :pep:`3108`: -* Killed :mod:`sets`. Use the builtin :func:`set` function. +* Killed :mod:`sets`. Use the built-in :func:`set` class. * Cleanup of the :mod:`sys` module: removed :func:`sys.exitfunc`, :func:`sys.exc_clear`, :data:`sys.exc_type`, :data:`sys.exc_value`, @@ -795,8 +795,8 @@ Builtins It raises :exc:`EOFError` if the input is terminated prematurely. To get the old behavior of :func:`input`, use ``eval(input())``. -* A new builtin :func:`next` was added to call the :meth:`__next__` - method on an object. +* A new built-in function :func:`next` was added to call the + :meth:`__next__` method on an object. * Moved :func:`intern` to :func:`sys.intern`. |