Fix small typos in introduction and datastructures of tutorial (GH-272) (GH-297)
(cherry picked from commit 53c1892dc3de1de612b1cf95dc7bf09f82c1babf)
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 953a68b..6140ece 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
Add an item to the end of the list. Equivalent to ``a[len(a):] = [x]``.
-.. method:: list.extend(L)
+.. method:: list.extend(iterable)
:noindex:
- Extend the list by appending all the items in the given list. Equivalent to
- ``a[len(a):] = L``.
+ Extend the list by appending all the items from the iterable. Equivalent to
+ ``a[len(a):] = iterable``.
.. method:: list.insert(i, x)
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
The optional arguments *start* and *end* are interpreted as in the slice
notation and are used to limit the search to a particular subsequence of
- *x*. The returned index is computed relative to the beginning of the full
+ the list. The returned index is computed relative to the beginning of the full
sequence rather than the *start* argument.
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index 7e8ee3e..52120a0 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
Information about string formatting with :meth:`str.format`.
:ref:`old-string-formatting`
- The old formatting operations invoked when strings and Unicode strings are
+ The old formatting operations invoked when strings are
the left operand of the ``%`` operator are described in more detail here.