[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Issue #27993: Fix problems with the plural “objects” in docs and comments
martin.panter
python-checkins at python.org
Thu Sep 8 01:42:49 EDT 2016
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c07aadf9f5cb
changeset: 103293:c07aadf9f5cb
branch: 2.7
user: Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com>
date: Thu Sep 08 05:39:59 2016 +0000
summary:
Issue #27993: Fix problems with the plural “objects” in docs and comments
files:
Doc/library/argparse.rst | 4 ++--
Doc/library/weakref.rst | 2 +-
Doc/library/xml.dom.rst | 2 +-
Lib/inspect.py | 5 ++---
Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py | 2 +-
Misc/HISTORY | 2 +-
Misc/NEWS | 2 +-
7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
prog
^^^^
-By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects uses ``sys.argv[0]`` to determine
+By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects use ``sys.argv[0]`` to determine
how to display the name of the program in help messages. This default is almost
always desirable because it will make the help messages match how the program was
invoked on the command line. For example, consider a file named
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:class:`ArgumentParser` objects do not allow two actions with the same option
-string. By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects raises an exception if an
+string. By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects raise an exception if an
attempt is made to create an argument with an option string that is already in
use::
diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
Example
-------
-This simple example shows how an application can use objects IDs to retrieve
+This simple example shows how an application can use object IDs to retrieve
objects that it has seen before. The IDs of the objects can then be used in
other data structures without forcing the objects to remain alive, but the
objects can still be retrieved by ID if they do.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A :class:`NodeList` represents a sequence of nodes. These objects are used in
-two ways in the DOM Core recommendation: the :class:`Element` objects provides
+two ways in the DOM Core recommendation: an :class:`Element` object provides
one as its list of child nodes, and the :meth:`getElementsByTagName` and
:meth:`getElementsByTagNameNS` methods of :class:`Node` return objects with this
interface to represent query results.
diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -155,9 +155,8 @@
def isgeneratorfunction(object):
"""Return true if the object is a user-defined generator function.
- Generator function objects provides same attributes as functions.
-
- See help(isfunction) for attributes listing."""
+ Generator function objects provide the same attributes as functions.
+ See help(isfunction) for a list of attributes."""
return bool((isfunction(object) or ismethod(object)) and
object.func_code.co_flags & CO_GENERATOR)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
--- a/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
self.assertEqual(self.loads(s, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict,
object_hook=lambda x: None),
OrderedDict(p))
- # check that empty objects literals work (see #17368)
+ # check that empty object literals work (see #17368)
self.assertEqual(self.loads('{}', object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict),
OrderedDict())
self.assertEqual(self.loads('{"empty": {}}',
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -15145,7 +15145,7 @@
module implementing deepcopy and normal (shallow) copy operations.
See the library reference manual.
-- Documentation strings for many objects types are accessible through
+- Documentation strings for many object types are accessible through
the __doc__ attribute. Modules, classes and functions support special
syntax to initialize the __doc__ attribute: if the first statement
consists of just a string literal, that string literal becomes the
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1865,7 +1865,7 @@
- Issue #21350: Fix file.writelines() to accept arbitrary buffer objects,
as advertised. Patch by Brian Kearns.
-- Issue #20437: Fixed 43 potential bugs when deleting objects references.
+- Issue #20437: Fixed 43 potential bugs when deleting object references.
- Issue #21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
--
Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython
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