diff --git a/Doc/c-api/number.rst b/Doc/c-api/number.rst index 9bcb649c9d5..4a2d931dff3 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/number.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/number.rst @@ -278,5 +278,5 @@ Number Protocol .. c:function:: int PyIndex_Check(PyObject *o) - Returns True if *o* is an index integer (has the nb_index slot of the - tp_as_number structure filled in). + Returns ``1`` if *o* is an index integer (has the nb_index slot of the + tp_as_number structure filled in), and ``0`` otherwise. diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst index eed4f08d9f1..202da5ae5bb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Creating connections * *reuse_address* tells the kernel to reuse a local socket in TIME_WAIT state, without waiting for its natural timeout to - expire. If not specified will automatically be set to True on + expire. If not specified will automatically be set to ``True`` on UNIX. * *reuse_port* tells the kernel to allow this endpoint to be bound to the @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Creating listening connections * *reuse_address* tells the kernel to reuse a local socket in TIME_WAIT state, without waiting for its natural timeout to - expire. If not specified will automatically be set to True on + expire. If not specified will automatically be set to ``True`` on UNIX. * *reuse_port* tells the kernel to allow this endpoint to be bound to the diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst index 766e3b88b8c..9bff1c4140b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Future .. method:: done() - Return True if the future is done. + Return ``True`` if the future is done. Done means either that a result / exception are available, or that the future was cancelled. @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ Task functions All futures must share the same event loop. If all the tasks are done successfully, the returned future's result is the list of results (in the order of the original sequence, not necessarily the order of results - arrival). If *return_exceptions* is True, exceptions in the tasks are + arrival). If *return_exceptions* is true, exceptions in the tasks are treated the same as successful results, and gathered in the result list; otherwise, the first raised exception will be immediately propagated to the returned future. diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst index 7550f4d8f71..94822ba0d18 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst @@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ details, consult the :manpage:`dlopen(3)` manpage. On Windows, *mode* is ignored. On posix systems, RTLD_NOW is always added, and is not configurable. -The *use_errno* parameter, when set to True, enables a ctypes mechanism that +The *use_errno* parameter, when set to true, enables a ctypes mechanism that allows accessing the system :data:`errno` error number in a safe way. :mod:`ctypes` maintains a thread-local copy of the systems :data:`errno` variable; if you call foreign functions created with ``use_errno=True`` then the @@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ The function :func:`ctypes.get_errno` returns the value of the ctypes private copy, and the function :func:`ctypes.set_errno` changes the ctypes private copy to a new value and returns the former value. -The *use_last_error* parameter, when set to True, enables the same mechanism for +The *use_last_error* parameter, when set to true, enables the same mechanism for the Windows error code which is managed by the :func:`GetLastError` and :func:`SetLastError` Windows API functions; :func:`ctypes.get_last_error` and :func:`ctypes.set_last_error` are used to request and change the ctypes private @@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ type and the argument types of the function. The returned function prototype creates functions that use the standard C calling convention. The function will release the GIL during the call. If - *use_errno* is set to True, the ctypes private copy of the system + *use_errno* is set to true, the ctypes private copy of the system :data:`errno` variable is exchanged with the real :data:`errno` value before and after the call; *use_last_error* does the same for the Windows error code. diff --git a/Doc/library/functools.rst b/Doc/library/functools.rst index f9b90a80ac6..9a8defee546 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functools.rst @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions: grow without bound. The LRU feature performs best when *maxsize* is a power-of-two. - If *typed* is set to True, function arguments of different types will be + If *typed* is set to true, function arguments of different types will be cached separately. For example, ``f(3)`` and ``f(3.0)`` will be treated as distinct calls with distinct results. diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 23df18f8e7b..4da6e095d17 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ Raw File I/O The *name* can be one of two things: * a character string or :class:`bytes` object representing the path to the - file which will be opened. In this case closefd must be True (the default) + file which will be opened. In this case closefd must be ``True`` (the default) otherwise an error will be raised. * an integer representing the number of an existing OS-level file descriptor to which the resulting :class:`FileIO` object will give access. When the diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 98fea66434f..97fed8450fd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ is the module's name in the Python package namespace. looking for handlers in this logger and its parents in the logger hierarchy. Returns ``True`` if a handler was found, else ``False``. The method stops searching up the hierarchy whenever a logger with the 'propagate' attribute set to - False is found - that will be the last logger which is checked for the + false is found - that will be the last logger which is checked for the existence of handlers. .. versionadded:: 3.2 diff --git a/Doc/library/quopri.rst b/Doc/library/quopri.rst index 3c311254359..ef2b5f2f60e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/quopri.rst +++ b/Doc/library/quopri.rst @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ sending a graphics file. Like :func:`encode`, except that it accepts a source :class:`bytes` and returns the corresponding encoded :class:`bytes`. By default, it sends a - False value to *quotetabs* parameter of the :func:`encode` function. + ``False`` value to *quotetabs* parameter of the :func:`encode` function. diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst index 2636b15bf4f..a2f008346b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ to speed up repeated connections from the same clients. This setting doesn't apply to client sockets. You can also use the :data:`OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE` option to further improve security. - This method is not available if :data:`HAS_ECDH` is False. + This method is not available if :data:`HAS_ECDH` is ``False``. .. versionadded:: 3.3 diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 33563bba28a..c1b28f8fc35 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ compatibility with older versions, see the :ref:`call-function-trio` section. is automatically created with ``stdin=PIPE``, and the *stdin* argument may not be used as well. - If *check* is True, and the process exits with a non-zero exit code, a + If *check* is true, and the process exits with a non-zero exit code, a :exc:`CalledProcessError` exception will be raised. Attributes of that exception hold the arguments, the exit code, and stdout and stderr if they were captured. diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst index 6ba094d6672..02aaab3cf26 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ identifier. Python currently uses eight paths: If *vars* is provided, it must be a dictionary of variables that will update the dictionary used to expand the paths. - If *expand* is set to False, the paths will not be expanded. + If *expand* is set to false, the paths will not be expanded. If *scheme* is not an existing scheme, :func:`get_paths` will raise a :exc:`KeyError`. diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index 5063ede6ac4..cddbd52a3af 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ item to the buffer only needs to wake up one consumer thread. .. method:: wait_for(predicate, timeout=None) - Wait until a condition evaluates to True. *predicate* should be a + Wait until a condition evaluates to true. *predicate* should be a callable which result will be interpreted as a boolean value. A *timeout* may be provided giving the maximum time to wait. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index 534ed0fc677..2b0bdf758c9 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ Deleting an entry and reinserting it will move it to the end:: [('first', 1), ('third', 3), ('second', 5)] The :meth:`~collections.OrderedDict.popitem` method has an optional *last* -argument that defaults to True. If *last* is True, the most recently -added key is returned and removed; if it's False, the +argument that defaults to ``True``. If *last* is true, the most recently +added key is returned and removed; if it's false, the oldest key is selected:: >>> od = OrderedDict([(x,0) for x in range(20)]) @@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. * The :mod:`SocketServer` module's :class:`~SocketServer.TCPServer` class now supports socket timeouts and disabling the Nagle algorithm. The :attr:`~SocketServer.TCPServer.disable_nagle_algorithm` class attribute - defaults to False; if overridden to be True, + defaults to ``False``; if overridden to be true, new request connections will have the TCP_NODELAY option set to prevent buffering many small sends into a single TCP packet. The :attr:`~SocketServer.BaseServer.timeout` class attribute can hold @@ -1879,7 +1879,7 @@ The error messages for :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertEqual`, :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertTrue`, and :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertFalse` failures now provide more information. If you set the :attr:`~unittest.TestCase.longMessage` attribute of your :class:`~unittest.TestCase` classes to -True, both the standard error message and any additional message you +true, both the standard error message and any additional message you provide will be printed for failures. (Added by Michael Foord; :issue:`5663`.) The :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertRaises` method now @@ -1986,7 +1986,7 @@ GvR worked on merging them into Python's version of :mod:`unittest`. sequence comparison methods do. :func:`unittest.main` now takes an optional ``exit`` argument. If -False, :func:`~unittest.main` doesn't call :func:`sys.exit`, allowing +false, :func:`~unittest.main` doesn't call :func:`sys.exit`, allowing :func:`~unittest.main` to be used from the interactive interpreter. (Contributed by J. Pablo Fernández; :issue:`3379`.) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 3e2ca7aaca1..0c9f2bb24f1 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -1742,7 +1742,7 @@ sched ----- * :meth:`~sched.scheduler.run` now accepts a *blocking* parameter which when - set to False makes the method execute the scheduled events due to expire + set to false makes the method execute the scheduled events due to expire soonest (if any) and then return immediately. This is useful in case you want to use the :class:`~sched.scheduler` in non-blocking applications. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`13449`.)