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r73940 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 12:37:38 +0200 (Sa, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
#6430: add note about size of "u" type.
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#6421: The self argument of module-level PyCFunctions is now a reference to the module object.
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r74076 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-18 11:07:48 +0200 (Sa, 18 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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r74089 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-07-19 04:43:43 +0200 (So, 19 Jul 2009) | 3 lines
Fix for issue5102, timeout value propages between redirects, proxy, digest and
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Fix the "pylocals" gdb command.
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Move member descriptions inside the classes.
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r74209 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-26 16:37:28 +0200 (So, 26 Jul 2009) | 1 line
builtin -> built-in.
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r74207 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-26 16:19:57 +0200 (So, 26 Jul 2009) | 1 line
#6577: fix (hopefully) all links to builtin instead of module/class-specific objects.
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#6576: fix cross-refs in re docs.
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r74239 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-28 18:55:32 +0000 (Di, 28 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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r74254 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 18:14:16 +0200 (Mi, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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#6513: fix example code: warning categories are classes, not instances.
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r74111 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-20 09:30:10 -0400 (Mon, 20 Jul 2009) | 1 line
remove docs for deprecated -p option
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r74188 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-23 10:25:31 -0400 (Thu, 23 Jul 2009) | 1 line
use bools
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r74192 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-24 12:28:38 -0400 (Fri, 24 Jul 2009) | 1 line
Fix arg types of et#.
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r74258 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 12:57:05 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line
Add a link to readline, and mention IPython and bpython.
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r74259 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 13:07:21 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line
Fix some markup and small factual glitches found by M. Markert.
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Fix a few markup glitches.
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r74261 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 13:50:25 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line
Rewrite the section about classes a bit; mostly tidbits, and a larger update to the section about "private" variables to reflect the Pythonic consensus better.
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r74311 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-04 22:29:27 +0200 (Di, 04 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Slightly improve buffer-related error message.
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r74334 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-06 19:51:03 +0200 (Do, 06 Aug 2009) | 1 line
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 5efc45d..a69a0f8 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
abstract base class
Abstract Base Classes (abbreviated ABCs) complement :term:`duck-typing` by
- providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like :func:`hasattr`
- would be clumsy. Python comes with many builtin ABCs for data structures
- (in the :mod:`collections` module), numbers (in the :mod:`numbers`
- module), and streams (in the :mod:`io` module). You can create your own
- ABC with the :mod:`abc` module.
+ providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like
+ :func:`hasattr` would be clumsy. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for
+ data structures (in the :mod:`collections` module), numbers (in the
+ :mod:`numbers` module), and streams (in the :mod:`io` module). You can
+ create your own ABC with the :mod:`abc` module.
argument
A value passed to a function or method, assigned to a named local
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
expressed as a sum of a real part and an imaginary part. Imaginary
numbers are real multiples of the imaginary unit (the square root of
``-1``), often written ``i`` in mathematics or ``j`` in
- engineering. Python has builtin support for complex numbers, which are
+ engineering. Python has built-in support for complex numbers, which are
written with this latter notation; the imaginary part is written with a
``j`` suffix, e.g., ``3+1j``. To get access to complex equivalents of the
:mod:`math` module, use :mod:`cmath`. Use of complex numbers is a fairly
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
define with an :meth:`__iter__` or :meth:`__getitem__` method. Iterables
can be used in a :keyword:`for` loop and in many other places where a
sequence is needed (:func:`zip`, :func:`map`, ...). When an iterable
- object is passed as an argument to the builtin function :func:`iter`, it
+ object is passed as an argument to the built-in function :func:`iter`, it
returns an iterator for the object. This iterator is good for one pass
over the set of values. When using iterables, it is usually not necessary
to call :func:`iter` or deal with iterator objects yourself. The ``for``
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
namespace
The place where a variable is stored. Namespaces are implemented as
- dictionaries. There are the local, global and builtin namespaces as well
+ dictionaries. There are the local, global and built-in namespaces as well
as nested namespaces in objects (in methods). Namespaces support
modularity by preventing naming conflicts. For instance, the functions
:func:`builtins.open` and :func:`os.open` are distinguished by their