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Title: Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 3.5
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: angad, brett.cannon, docs@python, miss-islington
Priority: low Keywords: easy, patch

Created on 2014-03-25 16:00 by brett.cannon, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Files
File name Uploaded Description Edit
this_module_doc_fix.patch angad, 2014-03-27 20:29 review
Pull Requests
URL Status Linked Edit
PR 17363 merged GeniusLearner, 2019-11-23 11:06
PR 17381 merged miss-islington, 2019-11-25 22:18
PR 17382 closed miss-islington, 2019-11-25 22:18
PR 17383 merged miss-islington, 2019-11-25 22:19
Messages (8)
msg214834 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2014-03-25 16:00
E.g. linecache says "This module provides random access to individual lines from text files." That's a big awkward and could just drop "This module" to read more easily.
msg214979 - (view) Author: Angad Singh (angad) * Date: 2014-03-27 20:10
Interested in taking this up as my first patch -
@brett - are you only talking about the :synopsis: or the occurrence of "This module" at the beginning of the description as well?
-angad
msg214980 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2014-03-27 20:14
Just the synopsis lines for the modules.
msg214981 - (view) Author: Angad Singh (angad) * Date: 2014-03-27 20:29
Not a lot of occurrences if I only look at the synopsis. Attaching a diff.
Also saw a weird "This subpackage" in apiref.rst line 1767. Fix that too?
msg214982 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2014-03-27 20:31
Sure, if you are just looking for "This module" you won't find very many instances. The bug is more about doing a sweep through *every* module's synopsis and just cleaning them up to read better. The "this module" instance for linecache is just an example of why a cleanup would be good to do.
msg357462 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2019-11-25 22:18
New changeset f8a6316778faff3991144c3aec4fa92d7b30a72b by Brett Cannon (Sanchit Khurana) in branch 'master':
bpo-21063: Improve module synopsis for distutils (GH-17363)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f8a6316778faff3991144c3aec4fa92d7b30a72b
msg357463 - (view) Author: miss-islington (miss-islington) Date: 2019-11-25 22:26
New changeset 089387ed1f47d9443b5f28bb1863294eeac2de08 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
bpo-21063: Improve module synopsis for distutils (GH-17363)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/089387ed1f47d9443b5f28bb1863294eeac2de08
msg357528 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2019-11-26 20:02
New changeset 2f2489310d89f589a091aa09ac1eb973d9a383d8 by Brett Cannon (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7':
bpo-21063: Improve module synopsis for distutils (GH-17363) (#17381)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2f2489310d89f589a091aa09ac1eb973d9a383d8
History
Date User Action Args
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