diff --git a/Doc/library/bdb.rst b/Doc/library/bdb.rst index d201dc963b59950..4ce5c9bcde38ff1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/bdb.rst +++ b/Doc/library/bdb.rst @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ The :mod:`bdb` module also defines two classes: .. method:: set_quit() Set the :attr:`quitting` attribute to ``True``. This raises :exc:`BdbQuit` in - the next call to one of the :meth:`dispatch_\*` methods. + the next call to one of the :meth:`!dispatch_\*` methods. Derived classes and clients can call the following methods to manipulate diff --git a/Doc/library/cmd.rst b/Doc/library/cmd.rst index 1318ffe5a48d53d..a79882ed1cca4f4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/cmd.rst +++ b/Doc/library/cmd.rst @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods: This method will return when the :meth:`postcmd` method returns a true value. The *stop* argument to :meth:`postcmd` is the return value from the command's - corresponding :meth:`do_\*` method. + corresponding :meth:`!do_\*` method. If completion is enabled, completing commands will be done automatically, and completing of commands args is done by calling :meth:`complete_foo` with @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods: :meth:`help_bar`, and if that is not present, prints the docstring of :meth:`do_bar`, if available. With no argument, :meth:`do_help` lists all available help topics (that is, all commands with corresponding - :meth:`help_\*` methods or commands that have docstrings), and also lists any + :meth:`!help_\*` methods or commands that have docstrings), and also lists any undocumented commands. @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods: This may be overridden, but should not normally need to be; see the :meth:`precmd` and :meth:`postcmd` methods for useful execution hooks. The return value is a flag indicating whether interpretation of commands by the - interpreter should stop. If there is a :meth:`do_\*` method for the command + interpreter should stop. If there is a :meth:`!do_\*` method for the command *str*, the return value of that method is returned, otherwise the return value from the :meth:`default` method is returned. @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods: .. method:: Cmd.completedefault(text, line, begidx, endidx) Method called to complete an input line when no command-specific - :meth:`complete_\*` method is available. By default, it returns an empty list. + :meth:`!complete_\*` method is available. By default, it returns an empty list. .. method:: Cmd.columnize(list, displaywidth=80) @@ -209,14 +209,14 @@ Instances of :class:`Cmd` subclasses have some public instance variables: .. attribute:: Cmd.misc_header The header to issue if the help output has a section for miscellaneous help - topics (that is, there are :meth:`help_\*` methods without corresponding - :meth:`do_\*` methods). + topics (that is, there are :meth:`!help_\*` methods without corresponding + :meth:`!do_\*` methods). .. attribute:: Cmd.undoc_header The header to issue if the help output has a section for undocumented commands - (that is, there are :meth:`do_\*` methods without corresponding :meth:`help_\*` + (that is, there are :meth:`!do_\*` methods without corresponding :meth:`!help_\*` methods). diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index bb282428c5fffc1..12eee47613d1864 100644 --- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ ConfigParser Objects When *converters* is given, it should be a dictionary where each key represents the name of a type converter and each value is a callable implementing the conversion from string to the desired datatype. Every - converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`get*()` method on the parser + converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`!get*()` method on the parser object and section proxies. .. versionchanged:: 3.1 diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index aba398b8ee1e54d..4d52254e6d6db55 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ An example for :class:`Sniffer` use:: # ... process CSV file contents here ... +.. _csv-constants: + The :mod:`csv` module defines the following constants: .. data:: QUOTE_ALL @@ -432,8 +434,8 @@ Dialects support the following attributes: .. attribute:: Dialect.quoting Controls when quotes should be generated by the writer and recognised by the - reader. It can take on any of the :const:`QUOTE_\*` constants (see section - :ref:`csv-contents`) and defaults to :const:`QUOTE_MINIMAL`. + reader. It can take on any of the :ref:`QUOTE_\* constants ` + and defaults to :const:`QUOTE_MINIMAL`. .. attribute:: Dialect.skipinitialspace diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst index 6f79b222790094a..64bddd23f829339 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst @@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ provides three different variants: The handler will parse the request and the headers, then call a method specific to the request type. The method name is constructed from the - request. For example, for the request method ``SPAM``, the :meth:`do_SPAM` + request. For example, for the request method ``SPAM``, the :meth:`!do_SPAM` method will be called with no arguments. All of the relevant information is stored in instance variables of the handler. Subclasses should not need to - override or extend the :meth:`__init__` method. + override or extend the :meth:`!__init__` method. :class:`BaseHTTPRequestHandler` has the following instance variables: @@ -187,13 +187,13 @@ provides three different variants: Calls :meth:`handle_one_request` once (or, if persistent connections are enabled, multiple times) to handle incoming HTTP requests. You should - never need to override it; instead, implement appropriate :meth:`do_\*` + never need to override it; instead, implement appropriate :meth:`!do_\*` methods. .. method:: handle_one_request() This method will parse and dispatch the request to the appropriate - :meth:`do_\*` method. You should never need to override it. + :meth:`!do_\*` method. You should never need to override it. .. method:: handle_expect_100() diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst index 0d48892fcdab97a..a72011991912150 100644 --- a/Doc/library/locale.rst +++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions: .. function:: getlocale(category=LC_CTYPE) Returns the current setting for the given locale category as sequence containing - *language code*, *encoding*. *category* may be one of the :const:`LC_\*` values + *language code*, *encoding*. *category* may be one of the :const:`!LC_\*` values except :const:`LC_ALL`. It defaults to :const:`LC_CTYPE`. Except for the code ``'C'``, the language code corresponds to :rfc:`1766`. diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index fe573f188ab0666..e5ac9afc3c6fd91 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -4170,7 +4170,7 @@ to be ignored. The "l" and "v" variants of the :func:`exec\* ` functions differ in how command-line arguments are passed. The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the - individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the :func:`execl\*` + individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the :func:`!execl\*` functions. The "v" variants are good when the number of parameters is variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as the *args* parameter. In either case, the arguments to the child process should start with @@ -4708,7 +4708,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. command-line arguments are passed. The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the - :func:`spawnl\*` functions. The "v" variants are good when the number of + :func:`!spawnl\*` functions. The "v" variants are good when the number of parameters is variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as the *args* parameter. In either case, the arguments to the child process must start with the name of the command being run. @@ -4758,7 +4758,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. P_NOWAITO Possible values for the *mode* parameter to the :func:`spawn\* ` family of - functions. If either of these values is given, the :func:`spawn\*` functions + functions. If either of these values is given, the :func:`spawn\* ` functions will return as soon as the new process has been created, with the process id as the return value. @@ -4768,7 +4768,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. .. data:: P_WAIT Possible value for the *mode* parameter to the :func:`spawn\* ` family of - functions. If this is given as *mode*, the :func:`spawn\*` functions will not + functions. If this is given as *mode*, the :func:`spawn\* ` functions will not return until the new process has run to completion and will return the exit code of the process the run is successful, or ``-signal`` if a signal kills the process. diff --git a/Doc/library/resource.rst b/Doc/library/resource.rst index ef65674d1b0a787..4e58b043f1da315 100644 --- a/Doc/library/resource.rst +++ b/Doc/library/resource.rst @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information: This function returns an object that describes the resources consumed by either the current process or its children, as specified by the *who* parameter. The - *who* parameter should be specified using one of the :const:`RUSAGE_\*` + *who* parameter should be specified using one of the :const:`!RUSAGE_\*` constants described below. A simple example:: @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information: Returns the number of bytes in a system page. (This need not be the same as the hardware page size.) -The following :const:`RUSAGE_\*` symbols are passed to the :func:`getrusage` +The following :const:`!RUSAGE_\*` symbols are passed to the :func:`getrusage` function to specify which processes information should be provided for. diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index e0a75304ef16064..4bfb0d8c2cfeacd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ Exceptions The accompanying value is a pair ``(error, string)`` representing an error returned by a library call. *string* represents the description of *error*, as returned by the :c:func:`gai_strerror` C function. The - numeric *error* value will match one of the :const:`EAI_\*` constants + numeric *error* value will match one of the :const:`!EAI_\*` constants defined in this module. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 @@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ to sockets. .. method:: socket.getsockopt(level, optname[, buflen]) Return the value of the given socket option (see the Unix man page - :manpage:`getsockopt(2)`). The needed symbolic constants (:const:`SO_\*` etc.) + :manpage:`getsockopt(2)`). The needed symbolic constants (:ref:`SO_\* etc. `) are defined in this module. If *buflen* is absent, an integer option is assumed and its integer value is returned by the function. If *buflen* is present, it specifies the maximum length of the buffer used to receive the option in, and @@ -1937,8 +1937,8 @@ to sockets. .. index:: pair: module; struct Set the value of the given socket option (see the Unix manual page - :manpage:`setsockopt(2)`). The needed symbolic constants are defined in the - :mod:`socket` module (:const:`SO_\*` etc.). The value can be an integer, + :manpage:`setsockopt(2)`). The needed symbolic constants are defined in this + module (:ref:`!SO_\* etc. `). The value can be an integer, ``None`` or a :term:`bytes-like object` representing a buffer. In the later case it is up to the caller to ensure that the bytestring contains the proper bits (see the optional built-in module :mod:`struct` for a way to diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index 02b72cb9f6b8aae..c04e6c378cc3b19 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -390,8 +390,8 @@ testing code:: widget = Widget('The widget') self.assertEqual(widget.size(), (50, 50)) -Note that in order to test something, we use one of the :meth:`assert\*` -methods provided by the :class:`TestCase` base class. If the test fails, an +Note that in order to test something, we use one of the :ref:`assert\* methods ` +provided by the :class:`TestCase` base class. If the test fails, an exception will be raised with an explanatory message, and :mod:`unittest` will identify the test case as a :dfn:`failure`. Any other exceptions will be treated as :dfn:`errors`. @@ -1940,14 +1940,14 @@ Loading and running tests String giving the prefix of method names which will be interpreted as test methods. The default value is ``'test'``. - This affects :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` + This affects :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods. .. attribute:: sortTestMethodsUsing Function to be used to compare method names when sorting them in - :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` methods. + :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods. .. attribute:: suiteClass @@ -1956,7 +1956,7 @@ Loading and running tests methods on the resulting object are needed. The default value is the :class:`TestSuite` class. - This affects all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` methods. + This affects all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods. .. attribute:: testNamePatterns @@ -1969,7 +1969,7 @@ Loading and running tests so unlike patterns passed to the ``-k`` option, simple substring patterns will have to be converted using ``*`` wildcards. - This affects all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` methods. + This affects all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods. .. versionadded:: 3.7 @@ -2003,7 +2003,7 @@ Loading and running tests A list containing 2-tuples of :class:`TestCase` instances and strings holding formatted tracebacks. Each tuple represents a test where a failure - was explicitly signalled using the :meth:`TestCase.assert\*` methods. + was explicitly signalled using the :ref:`assert\* methods `. .. attribute:: skipped diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index bf3af1bef0714c5..040e28e9124014b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -712,8 +712,8 @@ The following attribute and methods should only be used by classes derived from .. note:: The convention has been adopted that subclasses defining - :meth:`_request` or :meth:`_response` methods are named - :class:`\*Processor`; all others are named :class:`\*Handler`. + :meth:`!_request` or :meth:`!_response` methods are named + :class:`!\*Processor`; all others are named :class:`!\*Handler`. .. attribute:: BaseHandler.parent @@ -833,9 +833,9 @@ HTTPRedirectHandler Objects .. method:: HTTPRedirectHandler.redirect_request(req, fp, code, msg, hdrs, newurl) Return a :class:`Request` or ``None`` in response to a redirect. This is called - by the default implementations of the :meth:`http_error_30\*` methods when a + by the default implementations of the :meth:`!http_error_30\*` methods when a redirection is received from the server. If a redirection should take place, - return a new :class:`Request` to allow :meth:`http_error_30\*` to perform the + return a new :class:`Request` to allow :meth:`!http_error_30\*` to perform the redirect to *newurl*. Otherwise, raise :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` if no other handler should try to handle this URL, or return ``None`` if you can't but another handler might. diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst index b387240a3716ccc..d0e1b248d595d13 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ NamedNodeMap Objects attribute node. Get its value with the :attr:`value` attribute. There are also experimental methods that give this class more mapping behavior. -You can use them or you can use the standardized :meth:`getAttribute\*` family +You can use them or you can use the standardized :meth:`!getAttribute\*` family of methods on the :class:`Element` objects. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst index c989e6d3fa57879..0c77b339a182c9e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst @@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. :mod:`os` module. (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer, Geert Jansen, and Denis S. Otkidach.) -* In the :mod:`os` module, the :func:`\*stat` family of functions can now report +* In the :mod:`os` module, the :func:`!\*stat` family of functions can now report fractions of a second in a timestamp. Such time stamps are represented as floats, similar to the value returned by :func:`time.time`. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst index a7b0c6e5d76a6f6..bc748dd44f5f8e7 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. * A number of functions were added to the :mod:`locale` module, such as :func:`bind_textdomain_codeset` to specify a particular encoding and a family of - :func:`l\*gettext` functions that return messages in the chosen encoding. + :func:`!l\*gettext` functions that return messages in the chosen encoding. (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.) * Some keyword arguments were added to the :mod:`logging` package's diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst index 64b951da3fd5b87..627c918dd6d8b4f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst @@ -1167,10 +1167,10 @@ marked in the following list. * It's now illegal to mix iterating over a file with ``for line in file`` and calling the file object's :meth:`read`/:meth:`readline`/:meth:`readlines` - methods. Iteration uses an internal buffer and the :meth:`read\*` methods + methods. Iteration uses an internal buffer and the :meth:`!read\*` methods don't use that buffer. Instead they would return the data following the buffer, causing the data to appear out of order. Mixing iteration and these - methods will now trigger a :exc:`ValueError` from the :meth:`read\*` method. + methods will now trigger a :exc:`ValueError` from the :meth:`!read\*` method. (Implemented by Thomas Wouters.) .. Patch 1397960 diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index cf6d26859bb6a24..5af700bd5d3506f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. :func:`~math.lgamma` for the natural log of the Gamma function. (Contributed by Mark Dickinson and nirinA raseliarison; :issue:`3366`.) -* The :mod:`multiprocessing` module's :class:`Manager*` classes +* The :mod:`multiprocessing` module's :class:`!Manager*` classes can now be passed a callable that will be called whenever a subprocess is started, along with a set of arguments that will be passed to the callable. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 9f9cf7fafdc19e2..72d12461d8f7302 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1936,7 +1936,7 @@ Other Improvements * The :ref:`python ` command has a new :ref:`option `, ``-I``, which causes it to run in "isolated mode", which means that :data:`sys.path` contains neither the script's directory nor - the user's ``site-packages`` directory, and all :envvar:`PYTHON*` environment + the user's ``site-packages`` directory, and all :envvar:`!PYTHON*` environment variables are ignored (it implies both ``-s`` and ``-E``). Other restrictions may also be applied in the future, with the goal being to isolate the execution of a script from the user's environment. This is diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst index a9f25b482508ba9..731eed3447d2bca 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst @@ -605,8 +605,8 @@ Opt out serialization/deserialization for _random.Random .. nonce: jxJ4yn .. section: Core and Builtins -Rename `PyPegen*` functions to `PyParser*`, so that we can remove the old -set of `PyParser*` functions that were using the old parser, but keep +Rename ``PyPegen*`` functions to ``PyParser*``, so that we can remove the old +set of ``PyParser*`` functions that were using the old parser, but keep everything backwards-compatible. .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a1.rst index 633738de92bef7d..29d04fa0e175bf6 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a1.rst @@ -1913,7 +1913,7 @@ Stinner. .. nonce: Uxc9al .. section: Library -Allow :mod:`venv` to pass along :envvar:`PYTHON*` variables to ``ensurepip`` +Allow :mod:`venv` to pass along :envvar:`!PYTHON*` variables to ``ensurepip`` and ``pip`` when they do not impact path resolution .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b1.rst index 0944dfd0e90ab9b..007a6ad4ffd4d42 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b1.rst @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ Update the ``repr`` of :class:`typing.Unpack` according to :pep:`692`. .. section: Library Make :mod:`dis` display the names of the args for -:opcode:`CALL_INTRINSIC_*`. +:opcode:`!CALL_INTRINSIC_*`. .. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a2.rst index 1b336d7bc5137a2..05b3d9f0463c1c1 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a2.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a2.rst @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ configuring text widget colors to a new function. .. nonce: RbyFuV .. section: IDLE -Rename many `idlelib/*.py` and `idle_test/test_*.py` files. Edit files to +Rename many ``idlelib/*.py`` and ``idle_test/test_*.py`` files. Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old name referred to the module rather than the class it contained. See the issue and IDLE section in What's New in 3.6 for more. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst index 9818c17705074be..0444b53895b166d 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst @@ -2534,7 +2534,7 @@ object when `self._spec_signature` exists. Patch by Elizabeth Uselton .. nonce: iXGuoi .. section: Library -Make `from tkinter import *` import only the expected objects. +Make ``from tkinter import *`` import only the expected objects. .. @@ -3117,9 +3117,9 @@ Ensure cookies with ``expires`` attribute are handled in .. section: Library Fix an unintended ValueError from :func:`subprocess.run` when checking for -conflicting `input` and `stdin` or `capture_output` and `stdout` or `stderr` -args when they were explicitly provided but with `None` values within a -passed in `**kwargs` dict rather than as passed directly by name. Patch +conflicting *input* and *stdin* or *capture_output* and *stdout* or *stderr* +args when they were explicitly provided but with ``None`` values within a +passed in ``**kwargs`` dict rather than as passed directly by name. Patch contributed by RĂ©mi Lapeyre. .. @@ -3546,7 +3546,7 @@ Patch by Stein Karlsen. .. nonce: XaJDei .. section: Library -lib2to3 now recognizes expressions after ``*`` and `**` like in ``f(*[] or +lib2to3 now recognizes expressions after ``*`` and ``**`` like in ``f(*[] or [])``. ..