diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex index 56d15b85fb0..3eea27a259d 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ fact will break in 2.0. Some work has been done to make integers and long integers a bit more interchangeable. In 1.5.2, large-file support was added for Solaris, -to allow reading files larger than 2Gb; this made the \method{tell()} +to allow reading files larger than 2~GiB; this made the \method{tell()} method of file objects return a long integer instead of a regular integer. Some code would subtract two file offsets and attempt to use the result to multiply a sequence or slice a string, but this raised a diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index a12208384a3..0af4b46a505 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ now return enhanced tuples: ('amk', 500) \end{verbatim} -\item The \module{gzip} module can now handle files exceeding 2~Gb. +\item The \module{gzip} module can now handle files exceeding 2~GiB. \item The new \module{heapq} module contains an implementation of a heap queue algorithm. A heap is an array-like data structure that diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 302d9a5021f..2ce0a266102 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ space for a \ctype{PyObject} representing the item. 2147483647*4 is already more bytes than a 32-bit address space can contain. It's possible to address that much memory on a 64-bit platform, -however. The pointers for a list that size would only require 16GiB +however. The pointers for a list that size would only require 16~GiB of space, so it's not unreasonable that Python programmers might construct lists that large. Therefore, the Python interpreter had to be changed to use some type other than \ctype{int}, and this will be a @@ -1723,8 +1723,8 @@ Brandl.) % Patch 1120353 \item The \module{zipfile} module now supports the ZIP64 version of the -format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4 GiB and -can contain individual files larger than 4 GiB. (Contributed by +format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4~GiB and +can contain individual files larger than 4~GiB. (Contributed by Ronald Oussoren.) % Patch 1446489