[Python-checkins] bpo-28677: Improve phrasing of when instance attribute is referenced (GH-6208)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1c8f6553ad5a7f97495972da8f35f4dabcb372d4
commit: 1c8f6553ad5a7f97495972da8f35f4dabcb372d4
branch: 2.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-07-25T10:40:09-07:00
summary:

bpo-28677: Improve phrasing of when instance attribute is referenced (GH-6208)

(cherry picked from commit c0f0a7669c73c0d444851dd4c5299de2479214cc)

Co-authored-by: Aaron Ang <aaronang at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/tutorial/classes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 7f45c7632d5a..1058b77dd59e 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ the corresponding function with an argument list that is created by inserting
 the method's object before the first argument.
 
 If you still don't understand how methods work, a look at the implementation can
-perhaps clarify matters.  When an instance attribute is referenced that isn't a
-data attribute, its class is searched.  If the name denotes a valid class
+perhaps clarify matters.  When a non-data attribute of an instance is
+referenced, the instance's class is searched.  If the name denotes a valid class
 attribute that is a function object, a method object is created by packing
 (pointers to) the instance object and the function object just found together in
 an abstract object: this is the method object.  When the method object is called