https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cf472577e24911cb70b619304c0108c7fba97cac
commit: cf472577e24911cb70b619304c0108c7fba97cac
branch: main
author: Wei-Hsiang (Matt) Wang <mattwan...@gmail.com>
committer: AA-Turner <9087854+aa-tur...@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2024-09-01T05:59:42+01:00
summary:

gh-123517: Remove unnecessary ``:meth:`` parentheses (#123518)

files:
M Doc/c-api/datetime.rst
M Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst
M Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst
M Doc/faq/programming.rst
M Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
M Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
M Doc/library/asyncio-llapi-index.rst
M Doc/library/asyncio-queue.rst
M Doc/library/configparser.rst
M Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
M Doc/library/datetime.rst
M Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
M Doc/library/email.message.rst
M Doc/library/http.server.rst
M Doc/library/io.rst
M Doc/library/logging.config.rst
M Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
M Doc/library/os.rst
M Doc/library/pathlib.rst
M Doc/library/socket.rst
M Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
M Doc/library/ssl.rst
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
M Doc/library/tkinter.rst
M Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
M Doc/library/wave.rst
M Doc/reference/expressions.rst
M Doc/reference/import.rst
M Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/datetime.rst b/Doc/c-api/datetime.rst
index 97522da773477e..d2d4d5309c7098 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/datetime.rst
@@ -318,10 +318,10 @@ Macros for the convenience of modules implementing the DB 
API:
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyDateTime_FromTimestamp(PyObject *args)
 
    Create and return a new :class:`datetime.datetime` object given an argument
-   tuple suitable for passing to :meth:`datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp()`.
+   tuple suitable for passing to :meth:`datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp`.
 
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyDate_FromTimestamp(PyObject *args)
 
    Create and return a new :class:`datetime.date` object given an argument
-   tuple suitable for passing to :meth:`datetime.date.fromtimestamp()`.
+   tuple suitable for passing to :meth:`datetime.date.fromtimestamp`.
diff --git a/Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst 
b/Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst
index ae33236a6cf604..3f9cf6f208221a 100644
--- a/Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst
+++ b/Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ although there is currently no date scheduled for their 
removal.
   * Implicit ``None`` on return values.
 
 * :mod:`logging`: the ``warn()`` method has been deprecated
-  since Python 3.3, use :meth:`~logging.warning()` instead.
+  since Python 3.3, use :meth:`~logging.warning` instead.
 
 * :mod:`mailbox`: Use of StringIO input and text mode is deprecated, use
   BytesIO and binary mode instead.
diff --git a/Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst 
b/Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst
index 7eba9759119b3b..b8f437f8d2646e 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/newtypes_tutorial.rst
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ Further, the attributes can be deleted, setting the C 
pointers to ``NULL``.  Eve
 though we can make sure the members are initialized to non-``NULL`` values, the
 members can be set to ``NULL`` if the attributes are deleted.
 
-We define a single method, :meth:`!Custom.name()`, that outputs the objects 
name as the
+We define a single method, :meth:`!Custom.name`, that outputs the objects name 
as the
 concatenation of the first and last names. ::
 
    static PyObject *
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 3ac8cc1e281694..8f9b464ccbfcb7 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ Not as such.
 For simple input parsing, the easiest approach is usually to split the line 
into
 whitespace-delimited words using the :meth:`~str.split` method of string 
objects
 and then convert decimal strings to numeric values using :func:`int` or
-:func:`float`.  :meth:`!split()` supports an optional "sep" parameter which is 
useful
+:func:`float`.  :meth:`!split` supports an optional "sep" parameter which is 
useful
 if the line uses something other than whitespace as a separator.
 
 For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions are more powerful
diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index 7fb54d6662691f..4b4222c9a89df8 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ The full C implementation can be found in 
:c:func:`!super_getattro` in
 Summary of invocation logic
 ---------------------------
 
-The mechanism for descriptors is embedded in the :meth:`__getattribute__()`
+The mechanism for descriptors is embedded in the :meth:`__getattribute__`
 methods for :class:`object`, :class:`type`, and :func:`super`.
 
 The important points to remember are:
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst 
b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index 70bdd154d6c406..943683f6b8a7f6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Running and stopping the loop
 
    Run the event loop until :meth:`stop` is called.
 
-   If :meth:`stop` is called before :meth:`run_forever()` is called,
+   If :meth:`stop` is called before :meth:`run_forever` is called,
    the loop will poll the I/O selector once with a timeout of zero,
    run all callbacks scheduled in response to I/O events (and
    those that were already scheduled), and then exit.
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Running and stopping the loop
 .. coroutinemethod:: loop.shutdown_asyncgens()
 
    Schedule all currently open :term:`asynchronous generator` objects to
-   close with an :meth:`~agen.aclose()` call.  After calling this method,
+   close with an :meth:`~agen.aclose` call.  After calling this method,
    the event loop will issue a warning if a new asynchronous generator
    is iterated. This should be used to reliably finalize all scheduled
    asynchronous generators.
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ Allows customizing how exceptions are handled in the 
event loop.
 
        This method should not be overloaded in subclassed
        event loops.  For custom exception handling, use
-       the :meth:`set_exception_handler()` method.
+       the :meth:`set_exception_handler` method.
 
 Enabling debug mode
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ async/await code consider using the high-level
    * *stdin* can be any of these:
 
      * a file-like object
-     * an existing file descriptor (a positive integer), for example those 
created with :meth:`os.pipe()`
+     * an existing file descriptor (a positive integer), for example those 
created with :meth:`os.pipe`
      * the :const:`subprocess.PIPE` constant (default) which will create a new
        pipe and connect it,
      * the value ``None`` which will make the subprocess inherit the file
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-llapi-index.rst 
b/Doc/library/asyncio-llapi-index.rst
index 67136ba69ec875..3e21054aa4fe9e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-llapi-index.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-llapi-index.rst
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ See also the main documentation section about the
     * - :meth:`loop.close`
       - Close the event loop.
 
-    * - :meth:`loop.is_running()`
+    * - :meth:`loop.is_running`
       - Return ``True`` if the event loop is running.
 
-    * - :meth:`loop.is_closed()`
+    * - :meth:`loop.is_closed`
       - Return ``True`` if the event loop is closed.
 
     * - ``await`` :meth:`loop.shutdown_asyncgens`
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-queue.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-queue.rst
index 9b579cc1d5fdfe..61991bf2f4ed1d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-queue.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-queue.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Queue
       Return ``True`` if there are :attr:`maxsize` items in the queue.
 
       If the queue was initialized with ``maxsize=0`` (the default),
-      then :meth:`full()` never returns ``True``.
+      then :meth:`full` never returns ``True``.
 
    .. coroutinemethod:: get()
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
index 587fe50fd51164..b5c18bbccffb78 100644
--- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ ConfigParser Objects
    When *converters* is given, it should be a dictionary where each key
    represents the name of a type converter and each value is a callable
    implementing the conversion from string to the desired datatype.  Every
-   converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`!get*()` method on the parser
+   converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`!get*` method on the parser
    object and section proxies.
 
    It is possible to read several configurations into a single
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ ConfigParser Objects
       The *converters* argument was added.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.7
-      The *defaults* argument is read with :meth:`read_dict()`,
+      The *defaults* argument is read with :meth:`read_dict`,
       providing consistent behavior across the parser: non-string
       keys and values are implicitly converted to strings.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
index fcb5e8bad295a0..c892c5cb1ff566 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Module contents
    - *unsafe_hash*: If ``False`` (the default), a :meth:`~object.__hash__` 
method
      is generated according to how *eq* and *frozen* are set.
 
-     :meth:`!__hash__` is used by built-in :meth:`hash()`, and when objects are
+     :meth:`!__hash__` is used by built-in :meth:`hash`, and when objects are
      added to hashed collections such as dictionaries and sets.  Having a
      :meth:`!__hash__` implies that instances of the class are immutable.
      Mutability is a complicated property that depends on the programmer's
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 558900dd3b9a4d..b8b442508becbb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ Other constructors, all class methods:
    .. versionadded:: 3.7
    .. versionchanged:: 3.11
       Previously, this method only supported formats that could be emitted by
-      :meth:`date.isoformat()` or :meth:`datetime.isoformat()`.
+      :meth:`date.isoformat` or :meth:`datetime.isoformat`.
 
 
 .. classmethod:: datetime.fromisocalendar(year, week, day)
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ Other constructor:
    .. versionadded:: 3.7
    .. versionchanged:: 3.11
       Previously, this method only supported formats that could be emitted by
-      :meth:`time.isoformat()`.
+      :meth:`time.isoformat`.
 
 
 Instance methods:
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst 
b/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
index 6e27a6e224a733..4285c436e8da80 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class:
 
    .. method:: __str__()
 
-      Equivalent to :meth:`.as_string()`.  Allows ``str(msg)`` to produce a
+      Equivalent to :meth:`.as_string`.  Allows ``str(msg)`` to produce a
       string containing the formatted message.
 
 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class:
 
    .. method:: __bytes__()
 
-      Equivalent to :meth:`.as_bytes()`.  Allows ``bytes(msg)`` to produce a
+      Equivalent to :meth:`.as_bytes`.  Allows ``bytes(msg)`` to produce a
       bytes object containing the formatted message.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.4
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst
index e9cce1af186526..71d6e321f387bc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ message objects.
 
    .. method:: __bytes__()
 
-      Equivalent to :meth:`.as_bytes()`.  Allows ``bytes(msg)`` to produce a
+      Equivalent to :meth:`.as_bytes`.  Allows ``bytes(msg)`` to produce a
       bytes object containing the serialized message.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index 9ed92dc6957370..1197b575c00455 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ provides three different variants:
 
       Adds a blank line
       (indicating the end of the HTTP headers in the response)
-      to the headers buffer and calls :meth:`flush_headers()`.
+      to the headers buffer and calls :meth:`flush_headers`.
 
       .. versionchanged:: 3.2
          The buffered headers are written to the output stream.
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index dd9224f4177ff0..f793d7a7ef9a84 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ the backing store is natively made of bytes (such as in the 
case of a file),
 encoding and decoding of data is made transparently as well as optional
 translation of platform-specific newline characters.
 
-The easiest way to create a text stream is with :meth:`open()`, optionally
+The easiest way to create a text stream is with :meth:`open`, optionally
 specifying an encoding::
 
    f = open("myfile.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8")
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ objects.  No encoding, decoding, or newline translation is 
performed.  This
 category of streams can be used for all kinds of non-text data, and also when
 manual control over the handling of text data is desired.
 
-The easiest way to create a binary stream is with :meth:`open()` with ``'b'`` 
in
+The easiest way to create a binary stream is with :meth:`open` with ``'b'`` in
 the mode string::
 
    f = open("myfile.jpg", "rb")
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.config.rst b/Doc/library/logging.config.rst
index 0ddbc1a5f88048..317ca8728248c8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.config.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.config.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ in :mod:`logging` itself) and defining handlers which are 
declared either in
              dictConfigClass(config).configure()
 
    For example, a subclass of :class:`DictConfigurator` could call
-   ``DictConfigurator.__init__()`` in its own :meth:`__init__()`, then
+   ``DictConfigurator.__init__()`` in its own :meth:`__init__`, then
    set up custom prefixes which would be usable in the subsequent
    :meth:`configure` call. :attr:`dictConfigClass` would be bound to
    this new subclass, and then :func:`dictConfig` could be called exactly as
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index f1f9d087edf7f9..9fa76c4ce59d00 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the 
API of the
    The constructor should always be called with keyword arguments. *group*
    should always be ``None``; it exists solely for compatibility with
    :class:`threading.Thread`.  *target* is the callable object to be invoked by
-   the :meth:`run()` method.  It defaults to ``None``, meaning nothing is
+   the :meth:`run` method.  It defaults to ``None``, meaning nothing is
    called. *name* is the process name (see :attr:`name` for more details).
    *args* is the argument tuple for the target invocation.  *kwargs* is a
    dictionary of keyword arguments for the target invocation.  If provided,
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the 
API of the
 
       You can use this value if you want to wait on several events at
       once using :func:`multiprocessing.connection.wait`.  Otherwise
-      calling :meth:`join()` is simpler.
+      calling :meth:`join` is simpler.
 
       On Windows, this is an OS handle usable with the ``WaitForSingleObject``
       and ``WaitForMultipleObjects`` family of API calls.  On POSIX, this is
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the 
API of the
 
    .. method:: kill()
 
-      Same as :meth:`terminate()` but using the ``SIGKILL`` signal on POSIX.
+      Same as :meth:`terminate` but using the ``SIGKILL`` signal on POSIX.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.7
 
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the 
API of the
 
 .. exception:: BufferTooShort
 
-   Exception raised by :meth:`Connection.recv_bytes_into()` when the supplied
+   Exception raised by :meth:`Connection.recv_bytes_into` when the supplied
    buffer object is too small for the message read.
 
    If ``e`` is an instance of :exc:`BufferTooShort` then ``e.args[0]`` will 
give
@@ -2961,7 +2961,7 @@ Beware of replacing :data:`sys.stdin` with a "file like 
object"
     resulting in a bad file descriptor error, but introduces a potential danger
     to applications which replace :func:`sys.stdin` with a "file-like object"
     with output buffering.  This danger is that if multiple processes call
-    :meth:`~io.IOBase.close()` on this file-like object, it could result in 
the same
+    :meth:`~io.IOBase.close` on this file-like object, it could result in the 
same
     data being flushed to the object multiple times, resulting in corruption.
 
     If you write a file-like object and implement your own caching, you can
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 9bfb9e2cdf9bc3..035c71dcd6bf4a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ process and user.
    to the environment made after this time are not reflected in 
:data:`os.environ`,
    except for changes made by modifying :data:`os.environ` directly.
 
-   The :meth:`!os.environ.refresh()` method updates :data:`os.environ` with
+   The :meth:`!os.environ.refresh` method updates :data:`os.environ` with
    changes to the environment made by :func:`os.putenv`, by
    :func:`os.unsetenv`, or made outside Python in the same process.
 
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ process and user.
       Updated to support :pep:`584`'s merge (``|``) and update (``|=``) 
operators.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.14
-      Added the :meth:`!os.environ.refresh()` method.
+      Added the :meth:`!os.environ.refresh` method.
 
 
 .. data:: environb
diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 1c54ceacbc7b98..4380122eb1be7d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -997,10 +997,10 @@ Querying file type and status
 
 .. versionchanged:: 3.8
 
-   :meth:`~Path.exists()`, :meth:`~Path.is_dir()`, :meth:`~Path.is_file()`,
-   :meth:`~Path.is_mount()`, :meth:`~Path.is_symlink()`,
-   :meth:`~Path.is_block_device()`, :meth:`~Path.is_char_device()`,
-   :meth:`~Path.is_fifo()`, :meth:`~Path.is_socket()` now return ``False``
+   :meth:`~Path.exists`, :meth:`~Path.is_dir`, :meth:`~Path.is_file`,
+   :meth:`~Path.is_mount`, :meth:`~Path.is_symlink`,
+   :meth:`~Path.is_block_device`, :meth:`~Path.is_char_device`,
+   :meth:`~Path.is_fifo`, :meth:`~Path.is_socket` now return ``False``
    instead of raising an exception for paths that contain characters
    unrepresentable at the OS level.
 
@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ Reading directories
    This can be used to prune the search, or to impose a specific order of 
visiting,
    or even to inform :meth:`Path.walk` about directories the caller creates or
    renames before it resumes :meth:`Path.walk` again. Modifying *dirnames* when
-   *top_down* is false has no effect on the behavior of :meth:`Path.walk()` 
since the
+   *top_down* is false has no effect on the behavior of :meth:`Path.walk` 
since the
    directories in *dirnames* have already been generated by the time *dirnames*
    is yielded to the caller.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 253a120e5c0f51..a81e11549d5c54 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ The following functions all create :ref:`socket objects 
<socket-objects>`.
    of :meth:`socket.getpeername` but not the actual OS resource.  Unlike
    :func:`socket.fromfd`, *fileno* will return the same socket and not a
    duplicate. This may help close a detached socket using
-   :meth:`socket.close()`.
+   :meth:`socket.close`.
 
    The newly created socket is :ref:`non-inheritable <fd_inheritance>`.
 
@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ to sockets.
 .. method:: socket.close()
 
    Mark the socket closed.  The underlying system resource (e.g. a file
-   descriptor) is also closed when all file objects from :meth:`makefile()`
+   descriptor) is also closed when all file objects from :meth:`makefile`
    are closed.  Once that happens, all future operations on the socket
    object will fail. The remote end will receive no more data (after
    queued data is flushed).
@@ -1434,10 +1434,10 @@ to sockets.
 
    .. note::
 
-      :meth:`close()` releases the resource associated with a connection but
+      :meth:`close` releases the resource associated with a connection but
       does not necessarily close the connection immediately.  If you want
-      to close the connection in a timely fashion, call :meth:`shutdown()`
-      before :meth:`close()`.
+      to close the connection in a timely fashion, call :meth:`shutdown`
+      before :meth:`close`.
 
 
 .. method:: socket.connect(address)
@@ -2046,7 +2046,7 @@ can be changed by calling :func:`setdefaulttimeout`.
    in non-blocking mode.  Also, the blocking and timeout modes are shared 
between
    file descriptors and socket objects that refer to the same network endpoint.
    This implementation detail can have visible consequences if e.g. you decide
-   to use the :meth:`~socket.fileno()` of a socket.
+   to use the :meth:`~socket.fileno` of a socket.
 
 Timeouts and the ``connect`` method
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index 5dc22a7e431ae4..0e51269abe7f50 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ and call :meth:`res.fetchone() <Cursor.fetchone>` to fetch 
the resulting row:
 We can see that the table has been created,
 as the query returns a :class:`tuple` containing the table's name.
 If we query ``sqlite_master`` for a non-existent table ``spam``,
-:meth:`!res.fetchone()` will return ``None``:
+:meth:`!res.fetchone` will return ``None``:
 
 .. doctest::
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
index ad441c528d0d66..7e14fc8c4d3b15 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
@@ -1049,25 +1049,25 @@ SSL Sockets
 
    SSL sockets provide the following methods of :ref:`socket-objects`:
 
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.accept()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.bind()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.close()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.connect()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.detach()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.fileno()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.getpeername()`, :meth:`~socket.socket.getsockname()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.getsockopt()`, :meth:`~socket.socket.setsockopt()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.gettimeout()`, :meth:`~socket.socket.settimeout()`,
-     :meth:`~socket.socket.setblocking()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.listen()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.makefile()`
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.recv()`, :meth:`~socket.socket.recv_into()`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.accept`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.bind`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.close`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.connect`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.detach`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.fileno`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.getpeername`, :meth:`~socket.socket.getsockname`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.getsockopt`, :meth:`~socket.socket.setsockopt`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.gettimeout`, :meth:`~socket.socket.settimeout`,
+     :meth:`~socket.socket.setblocking`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.listen`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.makefile`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.recv`, :meth:`~socket.socket.recv_into`
      (but passing a non-zero ``flags`` argument is not allowed)
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.send()`, :meth:`~socket.socket.sendall()` (with
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.send`, :meth:`~socket.socket.sendall` (with
      the same limitation)
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.sendfile()` (but :mod:`os.sendfile` will be used
-     for plain-text sockets only, else :meth:`~socket.socket.send()` will be 
used)
-   - :meth:`~socket.socket.shutdown()`
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.sendfile` (but :mod:`os.sendfile` will be used
+     for plain-text sockets only, else :meth:`~socket.socket.send` will be 
used)
+   - :meth:`~socket.socket.shutdown`
 
    However, since the SSL (and TLS) protocol has its own framing atop
    of TCP, the SSL sockets abstraction can, in certain respects, diverge from
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 8a7cb7e52eec29..864985b713b56d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -4023,7 +4023,7 @@ copying.
       dangling resources) as soon as possible.
 
       After this method has been called, any further operation on the view
-      raises a :class:`ValueError` (except :meth:`release()` itself which can
+      raises a :class:`ValueError` (except :meth:`release` itself which can
       be called multiple times)::
 
          >>> m = memoryview(b'abc')
diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
index f40790c1175800..70d4b30e96fe3a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
@@ -983,10 +983,10 @@ option (other options are available as well).
    Added the :class:`!PhotoImage` method :meth:`!copy_replace` to copy a region
    from one image to other image, possibly with pixel zooming and/or
    subsampling.
-   Add *from_coords* parameter to :class:`!PhotoImage` methods :meth:`!copy()`,
-   :meth:`!zoom()` and :meth:`!subsample()`.
+   Add *from_coords* parameter to :class:`!PhotoImage` methods :meth:`!copy`,
+   :meth:`!zoom` and :meth:`!subsample`.
    Add *zoom* and *subsample* parameters to :class:`!PhotoImage` method
-   :meth:`!copy()`.
+   :meth:`!copy`.
 
 The image object can then be used wherever an ``image`` option is supported by
 some widget (e.g. labels, buttons, menus). In these cases, Tk will not keep a
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 88c1f4bf85f662..ce82552a3ae4be 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ The following classes are provided:
 
    *method* should be a string that indicates the HTTP request method that
    will be used (e.g. ``'HEAD'``).  If provided, its value is stored in the
-   :attr:`~Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`get_method()`.
+   :attr:`~Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`get_method`.
    The default is ``'GET'`` if *data* is ``None`` or ``'POST'`` otherwise.
    Subclasses may indicate a different default method by setting the
    :attr:`~Request.method` attribute in the class itself.
diff --git a/Doc/library/wave.rst b/Doc/library/wave.rst
index 89664693cc87b4..36c2bde87fb8fb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/wave.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/wave.rst
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ The :mod:`wave` module defines the following function and 
exception:
    the file object.
 
    The :func:`.open` function may be used in a :keyword:`with` statement.  When
-   the :keyword:`!with` block completes, the :meth:`Wave_read.close()` or
-   :meth:`Wave_write.close()` method is called.
+   the :keyword:`!with` block completes, the :meth:`Wave_read.close` or
+   :meth:`Wave_write.close` method is called.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.4
       Added support for unseekable files.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index dc1cd20abe5ba3..1ed715109ca5f7 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ which are used to control the execution of a generator 
function.
 .. coroutinemethod:: agen.asend(value)
 
    Returns an awaitable which when run resumes the execution of the
-   asynchronous generator. As with the :meth:`~generator.send()` method for a
+   asynchronous generator. As with the :meth:`~generator.send` method for a
    generator, this "sends" a value into the asynchronous generator function,
    and the *value* argument becomes the result of the current yield expression.
    The awaitable returned by the :meth:`asend` method will return the next
diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst
index f8c9724114da9e..7de995b12702ec 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ When the named module is not found in :data:`sys.modules`, 
Python next
 searches :data:`sys.meta_path`, which contains a list of meta path finder
 objects.  These finders are queried in order to see if they know how to handle
 the named module.  Meta path finders must implement a method called
-:meth:`~importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec()` which takes three arguments:
+:meth:`~importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec` which takes three arguments:
 a name, an import path, and (optionally) a target module.  The meta path
 finder can use any strategy it wants to determine whether it can handle
 the named module or not.
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ spec object.  If it cannot handle the named module, it 
returns ``None``.  If
 a spec, then a :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` is raised.  Any other exceptions
 raised are simply propagated up, aborting the import process.
 
-The :meth:`~importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec()` method of meta path
+The :meth:`~importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec` method of meta path
 finders is called with two or three arguments.  The first is the fully
 qualified name of the module being imported, for example ``foo.bar.baz``.
 The second argument is the path entries to use for the module search.  For
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 3650edbf5426b3..3c9c2049b89ea0 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ that will be the numerator and denominator of the 
resulting fraction. ::
     Fraction(5, 3)
 
 For converting floating-point numbers to rationals,
-the float type now has an :meth:`as_integer_ratio()` method that returns
+the float type now has an :meth:`as_integer_ratio` method that returns
 the numerator and denominator for a fraction that evaluates to the same
 floating-point value::
 
@@ -2273,7 +2273,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the 
details.
   (Contributed by Guido van Rossum from work for Google App Engine;
   :issue:`3487`.)
 
-* The :mod:`rlcompleter` module's :meth:`Completer.complete()` method
+* The :mod:`rlcompleter` module's :meth:`Completer.complete` method
   will now ignore exceptions triggered while evaluating a name.
   (Fixed by Lorenz Quack; :issue:`2250`.)
 
@@ -2566,7 +2566,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the 
details.
     :meth:`tracer`, and :meth:`speed` methods.
   * The ability to set new shapes for the turtle, and to
     define a new coordinate system.
-  * Turtles now have an :meth:`undo()` method that can roll back actions.
+  * Turtles now have an :meth:`undo` method that can roll back actions.
   * Simple support for reacting to input events such as mouse and keyboard
     activity, making it possible to write simple games.
   * A :file:`turtle.cfg` file can be used to customize the starting appearance
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 857b6bb33a6e10..0e5c3b9b5f9738 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ modules.
   configuration files can now be read, modified, and then written back
   in their original order.
 
-* The :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._asdict()` method for
+* The :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._asdict` method for
   :func:`collections.namedtuple` now returns an ordered dictionary with the
   values appearing in the same order as the underlying tuple indices.
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 20a060ddf4b6d3..d59f24406c9483 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -2032,8 +2032,8 @@ Removed C APIs are :ref:`listed separately 
<whatsnew311-c-api-removed>`.
   It was introduced in Python 3.4 but has been broken since Python 3.7.
   (Contributed by Inada Naoki in :issue:`23882`.)
 
-* Removed the undocumented private :meth:`!float.__set_format__()` method,
-  previously known as :meth:`!float.__setformat__()` in Python 3.7.
+* Removed the undocumented private :meth:`!float.__set_format__` method,
+  previously known as :meth:`!float.__setformat__` in Python 3.7.
   Its docstring said: "You probably don't want to use this function.
   It exists mainly to be used in Python's test suite."
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`46852`.)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index dc16aa9e8cac66..27b5e2ffab122a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ importlib
 * Many previously deprecated cleanups in :mod:`importlib` have now been
   completed:
 
-  * References to, and support for :meth:`!module_repr()` has been removed.
+  * References to, and support for :meth:`!module_repr` has been removed.
     (Contributed by Barry Warsaw in :gh:`97850`.)
 
   * ``importlib.util.set_package``, ``importlib.util.set_loader`` and
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
index bbff8ecdd12117..2ab4102f32ab0b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ pdb
 
 * Hard-coded breakpoints (:func:`breakpoint` and :func:`pdb.set_trace`) now
   reuse the most recent :class:`~pdb.Pdb` instance that calls
-  :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.set_trace()`, instead of creating a new one each time.
+  :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.set_trace`, instead of creating a new one each time.
   As a result, all the instance specific data like :pdbcmd:`display` and
   :pdbcmd:`commands` are preserved across hard-coded breakpoints.
   (Contributed by Tian Gao in :gh:`121450`.)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 40305b78e8aa74..ba289f5089c719 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
 
   (Proposed and implemented by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`9337`.)
 
-* :class:`memoryview` objects now have a :meth:`~memoryview.release()` method
+* :class:`memoryview` objects now have a :meth:`~memoryview.release` method
   and they also now support the context management protocol.  This allows 
timely
   release of any resources that were acquired when requesting a buffer from the
   original object.
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ the constructor and to support mixed-type comparisons.
   and :class:`fractions.Fraction` (:issue:`2531` and :issue:`8188`).
 
 Similar changes were made to :class:`fractions.Fraction` so that the
-:meth:`~fractions.Fraction.from_float()` and 
:meth:`~fractions.Fraction.from_decimal`
+:meth:`~fractions.Fraction.from_float` and 
:meth:`~fractions.Fraction.from_decimal`
 methods are no longer needed (:issue:`8294`):
 
 >>> from decimal import Decimal
@@ -1622,7 +1622,7 @@ socket
 
 The :mod:`socket` module has two new improvements.
 
-* Socket objects now have a :meth:`~socket.socket.detach()` method which puts
+* Socket objects now have a :meth:`~socket.socket.detach` method which puts
   the socket into closed state without actually closing the underlying file
   descriptor.  The latter can then be reused for other purposes.
   (Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8524`.)
@@ -1859,11 +1859,11 @@ asyncore
 --------
 
 :class:`!asyncore.dispatcher` now provides a
-:meth:`!handle_accepted()` method
+:meth:`!handle_accepted` method
 returning a ``(sock, addr)`` pair which is called when a connection has 
actually
 been established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
-replacement for old :meth:`!handle_accept()` and avoids
-the user  to call :meth:`!accept()` directly.
+replacement for old :meth:`!handle_accept` and avoids
+the user  to call :meth:`!accept` directly.
 
 (Contributed by Giampaolo RodolĂ ; :issue:`6706`.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 75654f3e78eb16..077d8c1aae91ae 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ Both the :class:`!SMTPServer` and :class:`!SMTPChannel` 
classes now
 accept a *decode_data* keyword argument to determine if the ``DATA`` portion of
 the SMTP transaction is decoded using the ``"utf-8"`` codec or is instead
 provided to the
-:meth:`!SMTPServer.process_message()`
+:meth:`!SMTPServer.process_message`
 method as a byte string.  The default is ``True`` for backward compatibility
 reasons, but will change to ``False`` in Python 3.6.  If *decode_data* is set
 to ``False``, the ``process_message`` method must be prepared to accept keyword
@@ -1677,14 +1677,14 @@ arguments.
 The :class:`!SMTPServer` class now advertises the ``8BITMIME`` extension
 (:rfc:`6152`) if *decode_data* has been set ``True``.  If the client
 specifies ``BODY=8BITMIME`` on the ``MAIL`` command, it is passed to
-:meth:`!SMTPServer.process_message()`
+:meth:`!SMTPServer.process_message`
 via the *mail_options* keyword.
 (Contributed by Milan Oberkirch and R.  David Murray in :issue:`21795`.)
 
 The :class:`!SMTPServer` class now also supports the ``SMTPUTF8``
 extension (:rfc:`6531`: Internationalized Email).  If the client specified
 ``SMTPUTF8 BODY=8BITMIME`` on the ``MAIL`` command, they are passed to
-:meth:`!SMTPServer.process_message()`
+:meth:`!SMTPServer.process_message`
 via the *mail_options* keyword.  It is the responsibility of the
 ``process_message`` method to correctly handle the ``SMTPUTF8`` data.
 (Contributed by Milan Oberkirch in :issue:`21725`.)
@@ -2405,7 +2405,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
   error-prone and has been removed in Python 3.5.  See :issue:`13936` for full
   details.
 
-* The :meth:`ssl.SSLSocket.send()` method now raises either
+* The :meth:`ssl.SSLSocket.send` method now raises either
   :exc:`ssl.SSLWantReadError` or :exc:`ssl.SSLWantWriteError`
   on a non-blocking socket if the operation would block.  Previously,
   it would return ``0``.  (Contributed by Nikolaus Rath in :issue:`20951`.)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 6333fcf1012eba..3dd8ed2caa5948 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ The new :mod:`importlib.resources` module provides several 
new APIs and one
 new ABC for access to, opening, and reading *resources* inside packages.
 Resources are roughly similar to files inside packages, but they needn't
 be actual files on the physical file system.  Module loaders can provide a
-:meth:`get_resource_reader()` function which returns
+:meth:`get_resource_reader` function which returns
 a :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceReader` instance to support this
 new API.  Built-in file path loaders and zip file loaders both support this.
 
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ The MIME type of .bmp has been changed from 
``'image/x-ms-bmp'`` to
 msilib
 ------
 
-The new :meth:`!Database.Close()` method can be used
+The new :meth:`!Database.Close` method can be used
 to close the :abbr:`MSI` database.
 (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`20486`.)
 
@@ -2017,11 +2017,11 @@ importlib
 ---------
 
 Methods
-:meth:`!MetaPathFinder.find_module()`
+:meth:`!MetaPathFinder.find_module`
 (replaced by
 :meth:`MetaPathFinder.find_spec() <importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec>`)
 and
-:meth:`!PathEntryFinder.find_loader()`
+:meth:`!PathEntryFinder.find_loader`
 (replaced by
 :meth:`PathEntryFinder.find_spec() <importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_spec>`)
 both deprecated in Python 3.4 now emit :exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
@@ -2425,7 +2425,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
   to :meth:`ArgumentParser.add_subparsers() 
<argparse.ArgumentParser.add_subparsers>`.
   (Contributed by Anthony Sottile in :issue:`26510`.)
 
-* :meth:`ast.literal_eval()` is now stricter.  Addition and subtraction of
+* :meth:`ast.literal_eval` is now stricter.  Addition and subtraction of
   arbitrary numbers are no longer allowed.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`31778`.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 553e5da4daf0e7..35ae0e338d9c03 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -1077,16 +1077,16 @@ pathlib
 -------
 
 :mod:`pathlib.Path` methods that return a boolean result like
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.exists()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_dir()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_file()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_mount()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_symlink()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_block_device()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_char_device()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_fifo()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_socket()` now return ``False`` instead of raising
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.exists`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_dir`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_file`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_mount`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_symlink`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_block_device`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_char_device`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_fifo`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_socket` now return ``False`` instead of raising
 :exc:`ValueError` or its subclass :exc:`UnicodeEncodeError` for paths that
 contain characters unrepresentable at the OS level.
 (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33721`.)
 
-Added :meth:`!pathlib.Path.link_to()` which creates a hard link pointing
+Added :meth:`!pathlib.Path.link_to` which creates a hard link pointing
 to a path.
 (Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye in :issue:`26978`)
 Note that ``link_to`` was deprecated in 3.10 and removed in 3.12 in
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ recursively removing their contents first.
 socket
 ------
 
-Added :meth:`~socket.create_server()` and :meth:`~socket.has_dualstack_ipv6()`
+Added :meth:`~socket.create_server` and :meth:`~socket.has_dualstack_ipv6`
 convenience functions to automate the necessary tasks usually involved when
 creating a server socket, including accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 connections
 on the same socket.  (Contributed by Giampaolo RodolĂ  in :issue:`17561`.)
@@ -1368,9 +1368,9 @@ have been added as well.
 (Contributed by Lisa Roach in :issue:`26467`).
 
 Added :func:`~unittest.addModuleCleanup` and
-:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.addClassCleanup()` to unittest to support
+:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.addClassCleanup` to unittest to support
 cleanups for :func:`~unittest.setUpModule` and
-:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.setUpClass()`.
+:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.setUpClass`.
 (Contributed by Lisa Roach in :issue:`24412`.)
 
 Several mock assert functions now also print a list of actual calls upon
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ Deprecated
   the ``l*gettext()`` functions.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33710`.)
 
-* The :meth:`~threading.Thread.isAlive()` method of :class:`threading.Thread`
+* The :meth:`~threading.Thread.isAlive` method of :class:`threading.Thread`
   has been deprecated.
   (Contributed by Donghee Na in :issue:`35283`.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index d59a30c23a1ab6..1b24abfa857150 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ Added :func:`curses.get_escdelay`, 
:func:`curses.set_escdelay`,
 
 datetime
 --------
-The :meth:`~datetime.date.isocalendar()` of :class:`datetime.date`
-and :meth:`~datetime.datetime.isocalendar()` of :class:`datetime.datetime`
+The :meth:`~datetime.date.isocalendar` of :class:`datetime.date`
+and :meth:`~datetime.datetime.isocalendar` of :class:`datetime.datetime`
 methods now returns a :func:`~collections.namedtuple` instead of a 
:class:`tuple`.
 (Contributed by Donghee Na in :issue:`24416`.)
 
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ convert a wait status to an exit code.
 pathlib
 -------
 
-Added :meth:`pathlib.Path.readlink()` which acts similarly to
+Added :meth:`pathlib.Path.readlink` which acts similarly to
 :func:`os.readlink`.
 (Contributed by Girts Folkmanis in :issue:`30618`)
 
@@ -987,9 +987,9 @@ Removed
   removed. They were deprecated since Python 3.7.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`37320`.)
 
-* The :meth:`!isAlive()` method of :class:`threading.Thread`
+* The :meth:`!isAlive` method of :class:`threading.Thread`
   has been removed. It was deprecated since Python 3.8.
-  Use :meth:`~threading.Thread.is_alive()` instead.
+  Use :meth:`~threading.Thread.is_alive` instead.
   (Contributed by Donghee Na in :issue:`37804`.)
 
 * Methods ``getchildren()`` and ``getiterator()`` of classes
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst
index 0fc2277aaadfcb..f09842f1e77dea 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a1.rst
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ the :meth:`~object.__int__` method but do not have the
 .. nonce: AkRzjb
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
-Add :meth:`int.bit_count()`, counting the number of ones in the binary
+Add :meth:`int.bit_count`, counting the number of ones in the binary
 representation of an integer. Patch by Niklas Fiekas.
 
 ..
@@ -2452,7 +2452,7 @@ Added the *root_dir* and *dir_fd* parameters in 
:func:`glob.glob`.
 .. nonce: X-TJZO
 .. section: Library
 
-Fix :meth:`IMAP4.noop()` when debug mode is enabled (ex: ``imaplib.Debug =
+Fix :meth:`IMAP4.noop` when debug mode is enabled (ex: ``imaplib.Debug =
 3``).
 
 ..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst
index bdf9488c81bae1..bd002b6ad3db9b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Inwood.
 .. nonce: jd_gkA
 .. section: Library
 
-:meth:`sched.scheduler.cancel()` will now cancel the correct event, if two
+:meth:`sched.scheduler.cancel` will now cancel the correct event, if two
 events with same priority are scheduled for the same time. Patch by Bar
 Harel.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0b1.rst
index 33d71e847e1232..25c6b827146e82 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0b1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0b1.rst
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ functions in the :mod:`os` module.
 if the basename of current user's home directory does not match their
 username.
 
-:meth:`pathlib.Path.expanduser()` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.home()` now
+:meth:`pathlib.Path.expanduser` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.home` now
 consistently raise :exc:`RuntimeError` exception when a home directory
 cannot be resolved. Previously a :exc:`KeyError` exception could be raised
 on Windows when the ``"USERNAME"``  environment variable was unset.
@@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@ Adds additional arguments to :func:`os.startfile` 
function.
 .. nonce: F0Cg6X
 .. section: Windows
 
-Avoid raising errors from :meth:`pathlib.Path.exists()` when passed an
+Avoid raising errors from :meth:`pathlib.Path.exists` when passed an
 invalid filename.
 
 ..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.11.0a7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.11.0a7.rst
index 1254abfddcabc8..eff2ea2dac13f8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.11.0a7.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.11.0a7.rst
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Kumar Aditya.
 .. nonce: ZI05b5
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
-Improved the performance of :meth:`list.append()` and list comprehensions by
+Improved the performance of :meth:`list.append` and list comprehensions by
 optimizing for the common case, where no resize is needed. Patch by Dennis
 Sweeney.
 
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ Raise more accurate and :pep:`249` compatible exceptions 
in :mod:`sqlite3`.
 * Don't overwrite :exc:`BufferError` with :exc:`ValueError` when conversion to
   BLOB fails.
 * Raise :exc:`~sqlite3.ProgrammingError` instead of :exc:`~sqlite3.Warning` if
-  user tries to :meth:`~sqlite3.Cursor.execute()` more than one SQL statement.
+  user tries to :meth:`~sqlite3.Cursor.execute` more than one SQL statement.
 * Raise :exc:`~sqlite3.ProgrammingError` instead of :exc:`ValueError` if an SQL
   query contains null characters.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a3.rst
index 1fd9bb8bc6a69e..04a2bf9fb916b7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a3.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a3.rst
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ Fix refcount error when arguments are packed to tuple in 
Argument Clinic.
 .. nonce: 7uCiIB
 .. section: Library
 
-:meth:`pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()` now treats naked Windows drive paths
+:meth:`pathlib.PurePath.relative_to` now treats naked Windows drive paths
 as relative. This brings its behaviour in line with other parts of pathlib.
 
 ..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a3.rst
index f7577bfd9e3401..0f8dee261c6589 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a3.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a3.rst
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ Fixed tarfile list() method to show file type.
 .. nonce: jLWGlr
 .. section: Library
 
-:meth:`asyncio.futures.Future.set_exception()` now transforms
+:meth:`asyncio.futures.Future.set_exception` now transforms
 :exc:`StopIteration` into :exc:`RuntimeError` instead of hanging or other
 misbehavior. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a5.rst
index bb162a2b538527..d56b1542b01823 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a5.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a5.rst
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ Add missing call to localization function in 
:mod:`argparse`.
 .. nonce: Me7fJe
 .. section: Library
 
-Fix :meth:`multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept()` to accept empty
+Fix :meth:`multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept` to accept empty
 bytes as authkey. Not accepting empty bytes as key causes it to hang
 indefinitely.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0b1.rst
index e9428786e8e153..97731276679ba6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0b1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0b1.rst
@@ -692,8 +692,8 @@ image data. Add *background* and *grayscale* parameters to
 Add the :class:`!PhotoImage` method :meth:`!copy_replace` to copy a region
 from one image to other image, possibly with pixel zooming and/or
 subsampling. Add *from_coords* parameter to :class:`!PhotoImage` methods
-:meth:`!copy()`, :meth:`!zoom()` and :meth:`!subsample()`. Add *zoom* and
-*subsample* parameters to :class:`!PhotoImage` method :meth:`!copy()`.
+:meth:`!copy`, :meth:`!zoom` and :meth:`!subsample`. Add *zoom* and
+*subsample* parameters to :class:`!PhotoImage` method :meth:`!copy`.
 
 ..
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst
index 17c892717368dd..c9786e55c20739 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ Add socket.getblocking() method.
 Add :mod:`importlib.resources` and :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceReader` as
 the unified API for reading resources contained within packages.  Loaders
 wishing to support resource reading must implement the
-:meth:`get_resource_reader()` method.  File-based and zipimport-based
+:meth:`get_resource_reader` method.  File-based and zipimport-based
 loaders both implement these APIs.  :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceLoader` is
 deprecated in favor of these new APIs.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
index 7c459c95f36b6d..93995bc8feaad7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
@@ -2850,8 +2850,8 @@ allow for tweaking of protocols and also to add support 
by default for
 .. nonce: 37IdsA
 .. section: Library
 
-Fixed integer overflow in the :meth:`~hashlib.shake.digest()` and
-:meth:`~hashlib.shake.hexdigest()` methods for the SHAKE algorithm in the
+Fixed integer overflow in the :meth:`~hashlib.shake.digest` and
+:meth:`~hashlib.shake.hexdigest` methods for the SHAKE algorithm in the
 :mod:`hashlib` module.
 
 ..
@@ -3212,9 +3212,9 @@ bytes objects. (microoptimization)
 .. section: Library
 
 Add :func:`~unittest.addModuleCleanup` and
-:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.addClassCleanup()` to unittest to support cleanups
+:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.addClassCleanup` to unittest to support cleanups
 for :func:`~unittest.setUpModule` and
-:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.setUpClass()`. Patch by Lisa Roach.
+:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.setUpClass`. Patch by Lisa Roach.
 
 ..
 
@@ -3664,7 +3664,7 @@ Add pure Python fallback for functools.reduce. Patch by 
Robert Wright.
 .. section: Library
 
 The default asyncio task class now always has a name which can be get or set
-using two new methods (:meth:`~asyncio.Task.get_name()` and
+using two new methods (:meth:`~asyncio.Task.get_name` and
 :meth:`~asyncio.Task.set_name`) and is visible in the :func:`repr` output.
 An initial name can also be set using the new ``name`` keyword argument to
 :func:`asyncio.create_task` or the
@@ -4152,12 +4152,12 @@ Convert content length to string before putting to 
header.
 :func:`~os.path.exists`, :func:`~os.path.lexists`, :func:`~os.path.isdir`,
 :func:`~os.path.isfile`, :func:`~os.path.islink`, and
 :func:`~os.path.ismount`, and :mod:`pathlib.Path` methods that return a
-boolean result like :meth:`~pathlib.Path.exists()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_dir()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_file()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_mount()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_symlink()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_block_device()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_char_device()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_fifo()`,
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_socket()` now return ``False`` instead of raising
+boolean result like :meth:`~pathlib.Path.exists`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_dir`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_file`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_mount`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_symlink`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_block_device`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_char_device`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_fifo`,
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_socket` now return ``False`` instead of raising
 :exc:`ValueError` or its subclasses :exc:`UnicodeEncodeError` and
 :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` for paths that contain characters or bytes
 unrepresentable at the OS level.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a4.rst
index edce71b2555a89..41eea7303bd899 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a4.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a4.rst
@@ -663,8 +663,8 @@ followed imports. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
 .. nonce: QmfNmY
 .. section: Library
 
-Added :meth:`~socket.create_server()` and
-:meth:`~socket.has_dualstack_ipv6()` convenience functions to automate the
+Added :meth:`~socket.create_server` and
+:meth:`~socket.has_dualstack_ipv6` convenience functions to automate the
 necessary tasks usually involved when creating a server socket, including
 accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 connections on the same socket.  (Contributed
 by Giampaolo Rodola in :issue:`17561`.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0b1.rst
index 5ab46db02cef11..5010473269d92f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0b1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0b1.rst
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ module.
 .. nonce: TQFOR4
 .. section: Library
 
-:meth:`!msilib.Directory.start_component()` no longer fails if *keyfile* is
+:meth:`!msilib.Directory.start_component` no longer fails if *keyfile* is
 not ``None``.
 
 ..
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ Asyncio: Remove inner callback on outer cancellation in 
shield
 .. nonce: d8djAJ
 .. section: Library
 
-Fix :meth:`asyncio.SelectorEventLoop.subprocess_exec()` leaks file
+Fix :meth:`asyncio.SelectorEventLoop.subprocess_exec` leaks file
 descriptors if ``Popen`` fails and called with ``stdin=subprocess.PIPE``.
 Patch by Niklas Fiekas.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
index 1e22da31c21398..d75132b0aac040 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
@@ -3839,7 +3839,7 @@ Added possible exceptions to the description of 
os.chdir().
 .. nonce: r_wGRc
 .. section: Documentation
 
-Documented that in :meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime()`, the leading zero in
+Documented that in :meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime`, the leading zero in
 some two-digit formats is optional. Patch by Mike Gleen.
 
 ..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst
index ca0eb2abf1d654..cce0c4c9acdf1b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ dependencies.
 .. nonce: X7FRaN
 .. section: Windows
 
-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.home()` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.expanduser()` on
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.home` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.expanduser` on
 Windows now prefer :envvar:`USERPROFILE` and no longer use :envvar:`HOME`,
 which is not normally set for regular user accounts. This makes them again
 behave like :func:`os.path.expanduser`, which was changed to ignore
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a6.rst
index 67e428bb22df12..11309fccc0a20c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a6.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a6.rst
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ after encoding it to utf-8, not before.
 .. nonce: pDZR6V
 .. section: Library
 
-Added :meth:`pathlib.Path.with_stem()` to create a new Path with the stem
+Added :meth:`pathlib.Path.with_stem` to create a new Path with the stem
 replaced.
 
 ..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0b1.rst
index 40fb8474bf9364..9a3630ddf216a8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0b1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0b1.rst
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ Remove ``_random.Random.randbytes()``: the C implementation 
of
 .. section: Library
 
 Added default arguments to
-:meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.find_longest_match()`.
+:meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.find_longest_match`.
 
 ..
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and 
Builtins/2024-07-05-11-29-27.gh-issue-121288.lYKYYP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core 
and Builtins/2024-07-05-11-29-27.gh-issue-121288.lYKYYP.rst
index bd3e20b5658562..ffe8f373c905e1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and 
Builtins/2024-07-05-11-29-27.gh-issue-121288.lYKYYP.rst 
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and 
Builtins/2024-07-05-11-29-27.gh-issue-121288.lYKYYP.rst 
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-:exc:`ValueError` messages for :meth:`!list.index()`, :meth:`!range.index()`,
-:meth:`!deque.index()`, :meth:`!deque.remove()` and
-:meth:`!ShareableList.index()` no longer contain the repr of the searched
+:exc:`ValueError` messages for :meth:`!list.index`, :meth:`!range.index`,
+:meth:`!deque.index`, :meth:`!deque.remove` and
+:meth:`!ShareableList.index` no longer contain the repr of the searched
 value (which can be arbitrary large) and are consistent with error messages
-for other :meth:`!index()` and :meth:`!remove()` methods.
+for other :meth:`!index` and :meth:`!remove` methods.

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