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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Doc/faq/windows.rst
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Expand Up @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ program. So, how do you arrange for the interpreter to handle your Python?
First, you need to make sure that your command window recognises the word
"python" as an instruction to start the interpreter. If you have opened a
command window, you should try entering the command ``python`` and hitting
return.::
return::

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This should be . :: (needed a space between . and ::).

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:: gets displayed as :, so it's wrong to add a point before it.

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:: after a space is not displayed, but just starts a code block. I believe this was the initial intention of the author of this text. See other occurrences of . :: in the documentation.

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The following block is clearly the example of the explained sentence. Sentence is "entering the command python and hitting return", bloc is "C:\Users\YourName> python", so ":" make more sense than "." here, am I wrong?


C:\Users\YourName> python

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Doc/library/argparse.rst
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Expand Up @@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ is used when no command-line argument was present::


Providing ``default=argparse.SUPPRESS`` causes no attribute to be added if the
command-line argument was not present.::
command-line argument was not present::

>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', default=argparse.SUPPRESS)
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Doc/library/mmap.rst
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Expand Up @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length


:class:`~mmap.mmap` can also be used as a context manager in a :keyword:`with`
statement.::
statement::

import mmap

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