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authorShu <23287722+susan-shu-c@users.noreply.github.com>2019-11-08 15:26:35 -0500
committerCarol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com>2019-11-08 12:26:35 -0800
commitfc6b1bf869be9fd89c19faf8d12fa473ce5222c8 (patch)
treed7a7c54cd126b6b0c283058c95886f8fcccfcea2
parent7e433733175e76627d46ed9bdab543860cd1452d (diff)
downloadcpython-git-fc6b1bf869be9fd89c19faf8d12fa473ce5222c8.tar.gz
Clarify amount of dots between package and subpackage (GH-17092)
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst
index 0228bfb7e9..5cce8ceaa3 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ module. Specifically, any module that contains a ``__path__`` attribute is
considered a package.
All modules have a name. Subpackage names are separated from their parent
-package name by dots, akin to Python's standard attribute access syntax. Thus
+package name by a dot, akin to Python's standard attribute access syntax. Thus
you might have a module called :mod:`sys` and a package called :mod:`email`,
which in turn has a subpackage called :mod:`email.mime` and a module within
that subpackage called :mod:`email.mime.text`.