From 53c1892dc3de1de612b1cf95dc7bf09f82c1babf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:13:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix small typos in introduction and datastructures of tutorial (GH-272) * Fix small typos in introduction and datastructures * Use iterable instead of L in the doc for list.extend --- Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst | 8 ++++---- Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) 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. -- 2.40.0