python setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/local/bin
-(This performs an installation using the "prefix scheme," where the prefix is
+(This performs an installation using the "prefix scheme", where the prefix is
whatever your Python interpreter was installed with--- :file:`/usr/local/python`
in this case.)
automatically started to view the file.
The mailcap format is documented in :rfc:`1524`, "A User Agent Configuration
-Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information," but is not an Internet
+Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information", but is not an Internet
standard. However, mailcap files are supported on most Unix systems.
.. index:: builtin: eval
- Determine if the formatted representation of *object* is "readable," or can be
+ Determine if the formatted representation of *object* is "readable", or can be
used to reconstruct the value using :func:`eval`. This always returns ``False``
for recursive objects.
:class:`socket.socket` type, and provides a socket-like wrapper that also
encrypts and decrypts the data going over the socket with SSL. It supports
additional methods such as :meth:`getpeercert`, which retrieves the
-certificate of the other side of the connection, and :meth:`cipher`,which
+certificate of the other side of the connection, and :meth:`cipher`, which
retrieves the cipher being used for the secure connection.
For more sophisticated applications, the :class:`ssl.SSLContext` class
(('postalCode', '03894-4801'),),
(('countryName', 'US'),),
(('stateOrProvinceName', 'NH'),),
- (('localityName', 'Wolfeboro,'),),
+ (('localityName', 'Wolfeboro'),),
(('organizationName', 'Python Software Foundation'),),
(('commonName', 'www.python.org'),)),
'subjectAltName': (('DNS', 'www.python.org'),
:attr:`fix_sentence_endings` is false by default.
Since the sentence detection algorithm relies on ``string.lowercase`` for
- the definition of "lowercase letter," and a convention of using two spaces
+ the definition of "lowercase letter", and a convention of using two spaces
after a period to separate sentences on the same line, it is specific to
English-language texts.
The :mod:`tokenize` module provides a lexical scanner for Python source code,
implemented in Python. The scanner in this module returns comments as tokens
-as well, making it useful for implementing "pretty-printers," including
+as well, making it useful for implementing "pretty-printers", including
colorizers for on-screen displays.
To simplify token stream handling, all :ref:`operator <operators>` and
:dfn:`Objects` are Python's abstraction for data. All data in a Python program
is represented by objects or by relations between objects. (In a sense, and in
-conformance to Von Neumann's model of a "stored program computer," code is also
+conformance to Von Neumann's model of a "stored program computer", code is also
represented by objects.)
.. index::
.. index:: pair: arithmetic; conversion
When a description of an arithmetic operator below uses the phrase "the numeric
-arguments are converted to a common type," this means that the operator
+arguments are converted to a common type", this means that the operator
implementation for built-in types works as follows:
* If either argument is a complex number, the other is converted to complex;