Commit 2982c32a authored by Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

Wording change (flaunt -> disobey); markup fixes. The largest edit is to the...

Wording change (flaunt -> disobey); markup fixes.  The largest edit is to the paragraph on relative imports; please review.  (Backport candidate)
parent af78e47f
......@@ -456,10 +456,11 @@ Removed Syntax
* The :keyword:`from` *module* :keyword:`import` ``*`` syntax is only
allowed at the module level, no longer inside functions.
* The only acceptable syntax for relative imports is :keyword:`from`
``.``[*module*] :keyword:`import` *name*; :keyword:`import` forms
not starting with ``.`` are always interpreted as absolute imports.
(:pep:`0328`)
* The only acceptable syntaxes for relative imports are :keyword:`from`
``.`` :keyword:`import` *name* or
:keyword:`from` ``.module`` :keyword:`import` *name*.
:keyword:`import` forms not starting with ``.`` are always
interpreted as absolute imports. (:pep:`0328`)
* Classic classes are gone.
......@@ -559,8 +560,8 @@ review:
release schedule. However, the package is alive and well,
externally maintained at http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm.
* Some modules were renamed because their old name flaunted
:pep:`0008`, or for various other reasons:
* Some modules were renamed because their old name disobeyed
:pep:`0008`, or for various other reasons. Here's the list:
======================= =======================
Old Name New Name
......@@ -607,7 +608,7 @@ review:
really care about :mod:`tkinter`. Also note that as of Python
2.6, the functionality of :mod:`turtle` has been greatly enhanced.
* :mod:`urllib` (:mod:`urllib`, :mod:`urllib`2, :mod:`urlparse`,
* :mod:`urllib` (:mod:`urllib`, :mod:`urllib2`, :mod:`urlparse`,
:mod:`robotparse`).
* :mod:`xmlrpc` (:mod:`xmlrpclib`, :mod:`DocXMLRPCServer`,
......@@ -649,7 +650,7 @@ Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by
* :data:`string.letters` and its friends (:data:`string.lowercase` and
:data:`string.uppercase`) are gone. Use
:data:`string.ascii_letters` etc. instead. (The reason for the
removal is that :data:string.letters` and friends had
removal is that :data:`string.letters` and friends had
locale-specific behavior, which is a bad idea for such
attractively-named global "constants".)
......@@ -702,8 +703,8 @@ new powerful features added:
:attr:`__traceback__` attribute (see below).
* :pep:`3110`: Catching exceptions. You must now use
*:keyword:`except` SomeException* :keyword:`as` *variable* instead
*of :keyword:`except` *SomeException*, variable*. Moreover, the
:keyword:`except` *SomeException* :keyword:`as` *variable* instead
of :keyword:`except` *SomeException*, variable*. Moreover, the
*variable* is explicitly deleted when the :keyword:`except` block
is left.
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