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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst index 117af10c4f..b1ab48e7f4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.1.rst @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Each of these magic methods can return anything at all: a Boolean, a matrix, a list, or any other Python object. Alternatively they can raise an exception if the comparison is impossible, inconsistent, or otherwise meaningless. -The built-in :func:`cmp(A,B)` function can use the rich comparison machinery, +The built-in ``cmp(A,B)`` function can use the rich comparison machinery, and now accepts an optional argument specifying which comparison operation to use; this is given as one of the strings ``"<"``, ``"<="``, ``">"``, ``">="``, ``"=="``, or ``"!="``. If called without the optional third argument, @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ where this behaviour is undesirable, object caches being the most common one, and another being circular references in data structures such as trees. For example, consider a memoizing function that caches the results of another -function :func:`f(x)` by storing the function's argument and its result in a +function ``f(x)`` by storing the function's argument and its result in a dictionary:: _cache = {} @@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ New and Improved Modules use :mod:`ftplib` to retrieve files and then don't work from behind a firewall. It's deemed unlikely that this will cause problems for anyone, because Netscape defaults to passive mode and few people complain, but if passive mode is - unsuitable for your application or network setup, call :meth:`set_pasv(0)` on + unsuitable for your application or network setup, call ``set_pasv(0)`` on FTP objects to disable passive mode. * Support for raw socket access has been added to the :mod:`socket` module, @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ New and Improved Modules for displaying timing profiles for Python programs, invoked when the module is run as a script. Contributed by Eric S. Raymond. -* A new implementation-dependent function, :func:`sys._getframe([depth])`, has +* A new implementation-dependent function, ``sys._getframe([depth])``, has been added to return a given frame object from the current call stack. :func:`sys._getframe` returns the frame at the top of the call stack; if the optional integer argument *depth* is supplied, the function returns the frame |