Use 'input' as variable name, even though it shadows a built-in
Remove applications of rsplit() and random numbers
Typo fixes; minor tweaks
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
index 4947290..71389a3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@
a list with \function{list()}.
\begin{verbatim}
->>> data = open('/etc/passwd', 'r')
->>> for line in reversed(list(data)):
+>>> input= open('/etc/passwd', 'r')
+>>> for line in reversed(list(input)):
... print line
...
root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/tcsh
@@ -137,8 +137,7 @@
\item Strings also gained an \method{rsplit()} method that
works like the \method{split()} method but splits from the end of
-the string. Possible applications include splitting a filename
-from a path or a domain name from URL.
+the string.
\begin{verbatim}
>>> 'a b c'.split(None, 1)
@@ -236,7 +235,7 @@
\item The \function{zip()} built-in function and \function{itertools.izip()}
now return an empty list instead of raising a \exception{TypeError}
- exception if called with no arguments. This makes the function more
+ exception if called with no arguments. This makes them more
suitable for use with variable length argument lists:
\begin{verbatim}
@@ -354,9 +353,9 @@
Note that \function{tee()} has to keep copies of the values returned
by the iterator; in the worst case, it may need to keep all of them.
-This should therefore be used carefully if there the leading iterator
+This should therefore be used carefully if the leading iterator
can run far ahead of the trailing iterator in a long stream of inputs.
-If the separation is large, then it becomes preferrable to use
+If the separation is large, then it becomes preferable to use
\function{list()} instead. When the iterators track closely with one
another, \function{tee()} is ideal. Possible applications include
bookmarking, windowing, or lookahead iterators.
@@ -385,8 +384,7 @@
\item The \module{random} module has a new method called \method{getrandbits(N)}
which returns an N-bit long integer. This method supports the existing
\method{randrange()} method, making it possible to efficiently generate
- arbitrarily large random numbers (suitable for prime number generation in
- RSA applications for example).
+ arbitrarily large random numbers.
\item The regular expression language accepted by the \module{re} module
was extended with simple conditional expressions, written as