[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Brett Cannon added the comment: New changeset 2f2489310d89f589a091aa09ac1eb973d9a383d8 by Brett Cannon (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-21063: Improve module synopsis for distutils (GH-17363) (#17381)

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 089387ed1f47d9443b5f28bb1863294eeac2de08 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-21063: Improve module synopsis for distutils (GH-17363) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/089387ed1f47d9443b5f28bb1863294eeac2de08 -- nosy:

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16865 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17383 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Change by Brett Cannon : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16864 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17382 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16863 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17381 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Brett Cannon added the comment: New changeset f8a6316778faff3991144c3aec4fa92d7b30a72b by Brett Cannon (Sanchit Khurana) in branch 'master': bpo-21063: Improve module synopsis for distutils (GH-17363) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f8a6316778faff3991144c3aec4fa92d7b30a72b

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Change by Sanchit Khurana : -- pull_requests: +16848 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17363 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Brett Cannon added the comment: Just the synopsis lines for the modules. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21063 ___ ___

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Angad Singh added the comment: Interested in taking this up as my first patch - @brett - are you only talking about the :synopsis: or the occurrence of This module at the beginning of the description as well? -angad -- nosy: +angad ___ Python

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Angad Singh added the comment: Not a lot of occurrences if I only look at the synopsis. Attaching a diff. Also saw a weird This subpackage in apiref.rst line 1767. Fix that too? -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34639/this_module_doc_fix.patch

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

Brett Cannon added the comment: Sure, if you are just looking for This module you won't find very many instances. The bug is more about doing a sweep through *every* module's synopsis and just cleaning them up to read better. The this module instance for linecache is just an example of why a

[issue21063] Touch up one-line descriptions of modules for module index

New submission from Brett Cannon: E.g. linecache says This module provides random access to individual lines from text files. That's a big awkward and could just drop This module to read more easily. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 214834