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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 87a77d07d5..f7689afaff 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ Glossary abstract base class Abstract Base Classes (abbreviated ABCs) complement :term:`duck-typing` by - providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like :func:`hasattr` - would be clumsy. Python comes with many builtin ABCs for data structures - (in the :mod:`collections` module), numbers (in the :mod:`numbers` - module), and streams (in the :mod:`io` module). You can create your own - ABC with the :mod:`abc` module. + providing a way to define interfaces when other techniques like + :func:`hasattr` would be clumsy. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for + data structures (in the :mod:`collections` module), numbers (in the + :mod:`numbers` module), and streams (in the :mod:`io` module). You can + create your own ABC with the :mod:`abc` module. argument A value passed to a function or method, assigned to a named local @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Glossary in ``3+4.5``, each argument is of a different type (one int, one float), and both must be converted to the same type before they can be added or it will raise a ``TypeError``. Coercion between two operands can be - performed with the ``coerce`` builtin function; thus, ``3+4.5`` is + performed with the ``coerce`` built-in function; thus, ``3+4.5`` is equivalent to calling ``operator.add(*coerce(3, 4.5))`` and results in ``operator.add(3.0, 4.5)``. Without coercion, all arguments of even compatible types would have to be normalized to the same value by the @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Glossary expressed as a sum of a real part and an imaginary part. Imaginary numbers are real multiples of the imaginary unit (the square root of ``-1``), often written ``i`` in mathematics or ``j`` in - engineering. Python has builtin support for complex numbers, which are + engineering. Python has built-in support for complex numbers, which are written with this latter notation; the imaginary part is written with a ``j`` suffix, e.g., ``3+1j``. To get access to complex equivalents of the :mod:`math` module, use :mod:`cmath`. Use of complex numbers is a fairly @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Glossary define with an :meth:`__iter__` or :meth:`__getitem__` method. Iterables can be used in a :keyword:`for` loop and in many other places where a sequence is needed (:func:`zip`, :func:`map`, ...). When an iterable - object is passed as an argument to the builtin function :func:`iter`, it + object is passed as an argument to the built-in function :func:`iter`, it returns an iterator for the object. This iterator is good for one pass over the set of values. When using iterables, it is usually not necessary to call :func:`iter` or deal with iterator objects yourself. The ``for`` @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Glossary namespace The place where a variable is stored. Namespaces are implemented as - dictionaries. There are the local, global and builtin namespaces as well + dictionaries. There are the local, global and built-in namespaces as well as nested namespaces in objects (in methods). Namespaces support modularity by preventing naming conflicts. For instance, the functions :func:`__builtin__.open` and :func:`os.open` are distinguished by their |