Issue #26304: Change "allows to <verb>" to "allows <verb>ing" or similar
The original form is incorrect grammar and feels awkward, even though the
meaning is clear.
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 5e5bc60..f964f5f 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@
functions to support PEP 3115 compliant dynamic class creation. Patch by
Daniel Urban and Nick Coghlan.
-- Issue #13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in
+- Issue #13152: Allow specifying a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in
textwrap. Patch by John Feuerstein.
- Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an
@@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@
fixed.
- Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional ``dispatch_table``
- attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions.
+ attribute which allows setting custom per-pickler reduction functions.
Patch by sbt.
- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
@@ -3185,7 +3185,7 @@
binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
encoding of the script.
-- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
+- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow specifying 0 as a backlog value in
order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
@@ -3885,7 +3885,7 @@
- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
Python.
-- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
+- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow filtering tests using a glob filter
with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
such as test_io or test_subprocess.
@@ -4221,7 +4221,7 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
+- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow mutating a readable buffer.
Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Library
@@ -4765,7 +4765,7 @@
- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
-- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
+- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows breaking a program again
after a "continue" command.
- Add the "interact" pdb command.
@@ -6916,7 +6916,7 @@
correct encoding.
- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
- ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
+ ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows selectively disabling
protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
@@ -9497,8 +9497,8 @@
- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
-- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
- or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
+- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing several streams
+ to be compressed or decompressed at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
@@ -9996,7 +9996,7 @@
as bytes string, please use PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() instead.
- Issue #3460: PyUnicode_Join() implementation is 10% to 80% faster thanks
- to Python 3.0's stricter semantics which allow to avoid successive
+ to Python 3.0's stricter semantics which allow avoiding successive
reallocations of the result string (this also affects str.join()).
@@ -12762,7 +12762,7 @@
- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
-- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
+- Patch #1107973: Allow iterating over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
@@ -13739,7 +13739,7 @@
same as when the argument is omitted).
[SF bug 658254, patch 663482]
-- nntplib does now allow to ignore a .netrc file.
+- nntplib does now allow ignoring a .netrc file.
- urllib2 now recognizes Basic authentication even if other authentication
schemes are offered.
@@ -14157,7 +14157,7 @@
- fcntl.ioctl now warns if the mutate flag is not specified.
-- nt now properly allows to refer to UNC roots, e.g. in nt.stat().
+- nt now properly allows referring to UNC roots, e.g. in nt.stat().
- the weakref module now supports additional objects: array.array,
sre.pattern_objects, file objects, and sockets.
@@ -16715,7 +16715,7 @@
- New functions PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr() and
PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename(). Similar to
PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
- PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow to specify
+ PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow specifying
the exception type to raise. Available on Windows.
- Py_FatalError() is now declared as taking a const char* argument. It
@@ -17590,8 +17590,8 @@
- property() now takes 4 keyword arguments: fget, fset, fdel and doc.
These map to read-only attributes 'fget', 'fset', 'fdel', and '__doc__'
in the constructed property object. fget, fset and fdel weren't
- discoverable from Python in 2.2a3. __doc__ is new, and allows to
- associate a docstring with a property.
+ discoverable from Python in 2.2a3. __doc__ is new, and allows
+ associating a docstring with a property.
- Comparison overloading is now more completely implemented. For
example, a str subclass instance can properly be compared to a str
@@ -18006,7 +18006,7 @@
-----
- regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some
- platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output. regrtest
+ platforms, allowing clearer test result output to be given. regrtest
also has optional --use/-u switch to run normally disabled tests
which require network access or consume significant disk resources.