Terminology and typography fixes
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@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ fact will break in 2.0.
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Some work has been done to make integers and long integers a bit more
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interchangeable. In 1.5.2, large-file support was added for Solaris,
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to allow reading files larger than 2Gb; this made the \method{tell()}
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to allow reading files larger than 2~GiB; this made the \method{tell()}
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method of file objects return a long integer instead of a regular
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integer. Some code would subtract two file offsets and attempt to use
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the result to multiply a sequence or slice a string, but this raised a
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@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ now return enhanced tuples:
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('amk', 500)
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\end{verbatim}
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\item The \module{gzip} module can now handle files exceeding 2~Gb.
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\item The \module{gzip} module can now handle files exceeding 2~GiB.
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\item The new \module{heapq} module contains an implementation of a
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heap queue algorithm. A heap is an array-like data structure that
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@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ space for a \ctype{PyObject} representing the item. 2147483647*4 is
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already more bytes than a 32-bit address space can contain.
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It's possible to address that much memory on a 64-bit platform,
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however. The pointers for a list that size would only require 16GiB
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however. The pointers for a list that size would only require 16~GiB
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of space, so it's not unreasonable that Python programmers might
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construct lists that large. Therefore, the Python interpreter had to
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be changed to use some type other than \ctype{int}, and this will be a
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@ -1723,8 +1723,8 @@ Brandl.)
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% Patch 1120353
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\item The \module{zipfile} module now supports the ZIP64 version of the
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format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4 GiB and
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can contain individual files larger than 4 GiB. (Contributed by
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format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4~GiB and
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can contain individual files larger than 4~GiB. (Contributed by
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Ronald Oussoren.)
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% Patch 1446489
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