[Python-checkins] Typo: fix inverted sense of statement (GH-23288)

miss-islington webhook-mailer at python.org
Wed Nov 25 09:12:26 EST 2020


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9d09e1719ce9dea1c97f06dd5f181daed928d6cd
commit: 9d09e1719ce9dea1c97f06dd5f181daed928d6cd
branch: master
author: basak <robie at justgohome.co.uk>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2020-11-25T06:12:17-08:00
summary:

Typo: fix inverted sense of statement (GH-23288)



Looks like a "not" was inadvertently omitted in commit e6a7ea4.
Classmethods are useful when data stored in specific instances are *not*
needed.

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:JulienPalard

files:
M Doc/howto/descriptor.rst

diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index bc741c738b98d..ab5a573c6a06d 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ for whether the caller is an object or a class:
     ('F', 3)
 
 This behavior is useful whenever the method only needs to have a class
-reference and does rely on data stored in a specific instance.  One use for
+reference and does not rely on data stored in a specific instance.  One use for
 class methods is to create alternate class constructors.  For example, the
 classmethod :func:`dict.fromkeys` creates a new dictionary from a list of
 keys.  The pure Python equivalent is:



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