[3.12] gh-125461: Remove Python 2 from identifiers in doc (GH-125462) (#125465)

gh-125461: Remove Python 2 from identifiers in doc (GH-125462)

Remove Python 2 from identifiers in doc
(cherry picked from commit 5dac0dceda9097d46a0b5a6ad7c927e002c6c7a5)

Co-authored-by: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index cfae01ba97a5550b65ce94ed111ae2fdee74ead5..41d8fbaee977506971274c9ee83c033cb884e125 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -284,11 +284,10 @@ UAX-31, with elaboration and changes as defined below; see also :pep:`3131` for
 further details.
 
 Within the ASCII range (U+0001..U+007F), the valid characters for identifiers
-are the same as in Python 2.x: the uppercase and lowercase letters ``A`` through
+include the uppercase and lowercase letters ``A`` through
 ``Z``, the underscore ``_`` and, except for the first character, the digits
 ``0`` through ``9``.
-
-Python 3.0 introduces additional characters from outside the ASCII range (see
+Python 3.0 introduced additional characters from outside the ASCII range (see
 :pep:`3131`).  For these characters, the classification uses the version of the
 Unicode Character Database as included in the :mod:`unicodedata` module.