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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 361e6db..0f98946 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ PEP 405: Virtual Environments Virtual environments help create separate Python setups while sharing a system-wide base install, for ease of maintenance. Virtual environments -have their own set of private site packages (i.e. locally-installed +have their own set of private site packages (i.e. locally installed libraries), and are optionally segregated from the system-wide site packages. Their concept and implementation are inspired by the popular ``virtualenv`` third-party package, but benefit from tighter integration @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ an IP address associated with a specific IP subnet). lzma ---- -The newly-added :mod:`lzma` module provides data compression and decompression +The newly added :mod:`lzma` module provides data compression and decompression using the LZMA algorithm, including support for the ``.xz`` and ``.lzma`` file formats. @@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ decimal C-module and libmpdec written by Stefan Krah. The new C version of the decimal module integrates the high speed libmpdec -library for arbitrary precision correctly-rounded decimal floating point +library for arbitrary precision correctly rounded decimal floating point arithmetic. libmpdec conforms to IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification. Performance gains range from 10x for database applications to 100x for @@ -1158,8 +1158,8 @@ API changes in order to obtain a rounded or inexact value. -* The power function in decimal.py is always correctly-rounded. In the - C version, it is defined in terms of the correctly-rounded +* The power function in decimal.py is always correctly rounded. In the + C version, it is defined in terms of the correctly rounded :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.exp` and :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.ln` functions, but the final result is only "almost always correctly rounded". @@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ zlib ---- New attribute :attr:`zlib.Decompress.eof` makes it possible to distinguish -between a properly-formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one. +between a properly formed compressed stream and an incomplete or truncated one. (Contributed by Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`12646`.) New attribute :attr:`zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION` reports the version string of |