From: Mariatta Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 06:34:51 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Fix small typos in introduction and datastructures of tutorial (GH-272) (GH-297) X-Git-Tag: v3.6.1rc1~51 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b00232842c5dd0d41054a02a7800fc5f82a92beb;p=python Fix small typos in introduction and datastructures of tutorial (GH-272) (GH-297) (cherry picked from commit 53c1892dc3de1de612b1cf95dc7bf09f82c1babf) --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst index 953a68b44a..6140ece046 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst @@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ objects: Add an item to the end of the list. Equivalent to ``a[len(a):] = [x]``. -.. method:: list.extend(L) +.. method:: list.extend(iterable) :noindex: - Extend the list by appending all the items in the given list. Equivalent to - ``a[len(a):] = L``. + Extend the list by appending all the items from the iterable. Equivalent to + ``a[len(a):] = iterable``. .. method:: list.insert(i, x) @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ objects: The optional arguments *start* and *end* are interpreted as in the slice notation and are used to limit the search to a particular subsequence of - *x*. The returned index is computed relative to the beginning of the full + the list. The returned index is computed relative to the beginning of the full sequence rather than the *start* argument. diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst index 7e8ee3e5ea..52120a0b16 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ The built-in function :func:`len` returns the length of a string:: Information about string formatting with :meth:`str.format`. :ref:`old-string-formatting` - The old formatting operations invoked when strings and Unicode strings are + The old formatting operations invoked when strings are the left operand of the ``%`` operator are described in more detail here.