[patch] tiny documentation fix

Jamie Wilkinson jaq at spacepants.org
Wed Nov 2 22:50:13 GMT 2005


This one time, at band camp, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>Martin Pool wrote:
>> On 01/11/05, Jamie Wilkinson <jaq at spacepants.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>One sentence in HACKING sent shivers down my spine.
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Jamie,
>> 
>> === modified file 'HACKING'
>> --- HACKING
>> +++ HACKING
>> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
>>  Destructors
>>  -----------
>> 
>> -Python destructors (``__del__``) work rather differently from in other
>> +Python destructors (``__del__``) work differently than those of other
>>  languages.  In particular, bear in mind that destructors may not be called
>>  immediately when the object apparently becomes unreferenced, and that
>>  there are tight restrictions on what can be done inside them.
>> 
>> As far as I know 'differently from' is correct, though 'different to'
>> might be better here.  No?
>
>"differently from other languages" would be okay, but I don't believe
>"diffenently from in other" is correct.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking.

If Robey's right, though, then the whole paragraph needs a rewrite :)




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