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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index 82012fb..768ea33 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ A partial list of 3.1 features that were backported to 2.7: * A version of the :mod:`io` library, rewritten in C for performance. * The ordered-dictionary type described in :ref:`pep-0372`. -* The new format specified described in :ref:`pep-0378`. +* The new format specifier described in :ref:`pep-0378`. * The :class:`memoryview` object. * A small subset of the :mod:`importlib` module `described below <#importlib-section>`__. @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. more sensible for numeric types. (Changed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`6857`.) * Distutils is being more actively developed, thanks to Tarek Ziade - has taken over maintenance of the package. A new + who has taken over maintenance of the package. A new :file:`setup.py` subcommand, ``check``, will check that the arguments being passed to the :func:`setup` function are complete and correct (:issue:`5732`). @@ -587,14 +587,14 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. an invalid file descriptor. (Implemented by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`4991`.) -* New function: ``itertools.compress(*data*, *selectors*)`` takes two +* New function: ``itertools.compress(data, selectors)`` takes two iterators. Elements of *data* are returned if the corresponding value in *selectors* is true:: itertools.compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) => A, C, E, F - New function: ``itertools.combinations_with_replacement(*iter*, *r*)`` + New function: ``itertools.combinations_with_replacement(iter, r)`` returns all the possible *r*-length combinations of elements from the iterable *iter*. Unlike :func:`combinations`, individual elements can be repeated in the generated combinations:: @@ -1080,5 +1080,5 @@ Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this -article: no one yet. +article: Ryan Lovett, Hugh Secker-Walker. |