Fix some markup and small factual glitches found by M. Markert.

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
index c1ff982b4d84435af581827562d173b1ca5fd67a..42a52e56064b5eac3ef9c1edcfdc9e47c66dcbf0 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
@@ -446,14 +446,14 @@ one would hope that this somehow goes out to the filesystem, finds which
 submodules are present in the package, and imports them all.  Unfortunately,
 this operation does not work very well on Windows platforms, where the
 filesystem does not always have accurate information about the case of a
-filename!  On these platforms, there is no guaranteed way to know whether a file
+filename.  On these platforms, there is no guaranteed way to know whether a file
 :file:`ECHO.PY` should be imported as a module :mod:`echo`, :mod:`Echo` or
 :mod:`ECHO`.  (For example, Windows 95 has the annoying practice of showing all
 file names with a capitalized first letter.)  The DOS 8+3 filename restriction
 adds another interesting problem for long module names.
 
 The only solution is for the package author to provide an explicit index of the
-package.  The import statement uses the following convention: if a package's
+package.  The :keyword:`import` statement uses the following convention: if a package's
 :file:`__init__.py` code defines a list named ``__all__``, it is taken to be the
 list of module names that should be imported when ``from package import *`` is
 encountered.  It is up to the package author to keep this list up-to-date when a
@@ -474,16 +474,16 @@ been imported (possibly running any initialization code in :file:`__init__.py`)
 and then imports whatever names are defined in the package.  This includes any
 names defined (and submodules explicitly loaded) by :file:`__init__.py`.  It
 also includes any submodules of the package that were explicitly loaded by
-previous import statements.  Consider this code::
+previous :keyword:`import` statements.  Consider this code::
 
    import sound.effects.echo
    import sound.effects.surround
    from sound.effects import *
 
-In this example, the echo and surround modules are imported in the current
-namespace because they are defined in the :mod:`sound.effects` package when the
-``from...import`` statement is executed.  (This also works when ``__all__`` is
-defined.)
+In this example, the :mod:`echo` and :mod:`surround` modules are imported in the
+current namespace because they are defined in the :mod:`sound.effects` package
+when the ``from...import`` statement is executed.  (This also works when
+``__all__`` is defined.)
 
 Note that in general the practice of importing ``*`` from a module or package is
 frowned upon, since it often causes poorly readable code. However, it is okay to
@@ -546,5 +546,6 @@ modules found in a package.
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
 .. [#] In fact function definitions are also 'statements' that are 'executed'; the
-   execution enters the function name in the module's global symbol table.
+   execution of a module-level function enters the function name in the module's
+   global symbol table.
 

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
index 0d1d4c76128f0ad66168e3f05483d3318dd9c757..6f0a6ed22b3934db6c535ae07d7b04fcbafac9e4 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
@@ -347,12 +347,15 @@ Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic
 
 The :mod:`decimal` module offers a :class:`Decimal` datatype for decimal
 floating point arithmetic.  Compared to the built-in :class:`float`
-implementation of binary floating point, the new class is especially helpful for
-financial applications and other uses which require exact decimal
-representation, control over precision, control over rounding to meet legal or
-regulatory requirements, tracking of significant decimal places, or for
-applications where the user expects the results to match calculations done by
-hand.
+implementation of binary floating point, the class is especially helpful for
+
+* financial applications and other uses which require exact decimal
+  representation,
+* control over precision,
+* control over rounding to meet legal or regulatory requirements,
+* tracking of significant decimal places, or
+* applications where the user expects the results to match calculations done by
+  hand.
 
 For example, calculating a 5% tax on a 70 cent phone charge gives different
 results in decimal floating point and binary floating point. The difference