gh-102105 Fix wording in filterfalse/quantify/filter (GH-102189)

(cherry picked from commit 81bf10e4f20a0f6d36b67085eefafdf7ebb97c33)

Co-authored-by: Stefan Pochmann <609905+pochmann@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index d0da05f784161ff9e19c8155987b1dde1748bd77..22972c0387509b37d5390f1e5fd1fdeb6e142558 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 .. function:: filter(function, iterable)
 
    Construct an iterator from those elements of *iterable* for which *function*
-   returns true.  *iterable* may be either a sequence, a container which
+   is true.  *iterable* may be either a sequence, a container which
    supports iteration, or an iterator.  If *function* is ``None``, the identity
    function is assumed, that is, all elements of *iterable* that are false are
    removed.
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    ``None``.
 
    See :func:`itertools.filterfalse` for the complementary function that returns
-   elements of *iterable* for which *function* returns false.
+   elements of *iterable* for which *function* is false.
 
 
 .. class:: float(x=0.0)

diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 06c73fc234903f4d399db24262dcbe0c7c2666d4..2fd30db0587f9690486b389e630c3abeb5bb2737 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ loops that truncate the stream.
 .. function:: filterfalse(predicate, iterable)
 
    Make an iterator that filters elements from iterable returning only those for
-   which the predicate is ``False``. If *predicate* is ``None``, return the items
+   which the predicate is false. If *predicate* is ``None``, return the items
    that are false. Roughly equivalent to::
 
       def filterfalse(predicate, iterable):
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
        return next(g, True) and not next(g, False)
 
    def quantify(iterable, pred=bool):
-       "Count how many times the predicate is true"
+       "Count how many times the predicate is True"
        return sum(map(pred, iterable))
 
    def ncycles(iterable, n):