Fix line breaks added after hyphens by blurb. (GH-7002)

Also remove bullet asterisks from IDLE entries.

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a1.rst

@@ -2706,8 +2706,8 @@ Added support for the "xztar" format in the shutil module.
 .. nonce: ZLsRil
 .. section: Library
 
-Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with -Werror=declaration-
-after-statement.
+Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with
+``-Werror=declaration-after-statement``.
 
 ..
 
@@ -4464,8 +4464,8 @@ Improve repr of inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter.
 .. nonce: DFMEgN
 .. section: Library
 
-Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing keyword-
-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
+Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing
+keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
 
 ..
 
@@ -5059,8 +5059,8 @@ Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
 .. nonce: KAl7aO
 .. section: Build
 
-Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python --generate-
-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
+Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python
+``--generate-posix-vars`` in pybuilddir.txt build target.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a3.rst

@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized objects.
 .. nonce: b5M04V
 .. section: Library
 
-The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is non-
-modifiable mapping.
+The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is
+non-modifiable mapping.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0b3.rst

@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ by Martin Panter.
 .. nonce: aAbWbQ
 .. section: Library
 
-Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize for tab-
-indented blocks.
+Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize for
+tab-indented blocks.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0b4.rst

@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ segment.
 .. nonce: hwXwCH
 .. section: Library
 
-SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional initial-
-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
+SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional
+initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.1rc1.rst

@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ twice.
 
 On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function
 instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking
-to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high-
-quality entropy.
+to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such
+high-quality entropy.
 
 ..
 
@@ -1083,10 +1083,10 @@ them a 'sheet'.  Patch by Mark Roseman.
 .. nonce: -j_BV7
 .. section: IDLE
 
-Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. * Properly indent
-fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). * Give code snippet a very Sphinx-
-like light blueish-gray background. * Re-use initial width and height set by
-users for shell and editor. * When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used,
+Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. Properly indent
+fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). Give code snippet a very
+Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. Re-use initial width and height set by
+users for shell and editor. When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used,
 put the section header at the top of the screen.
 
 ..

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.2rc1.rst

@@ -568,9 +568,9 @@ string.  Original fix by Ján Janech.
 .. section: Library
 
 The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in
-redirect target URLs.  Some servers send Location header fields with non-
-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be ASCII-
-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on patch by
+redirect target URLs.  Some servers send Location header fields with
+non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be
+ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on patch by
 Christian Heimes.
 
 ..
@@ -1952,8 +1952,8 @@ Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
 .. nonce: HDjM4s
 .. section: Build
 
-Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-
-compiling.  The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
+Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when
+cross-compiling.  The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
 code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by
 Xavier de Gaye.
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.3rc1.rst

@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
 .. nonce: RYbEGH
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
-Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty
+compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
 
 ..
 
@@ -349,8 +349,8 @@ Patch written by Xiang Zhang.
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
 Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in globals or builtins
-for importing submodules or "from import".  Fixed handling an error of non-
-string package name.
+for importing submodules or "from import".  Fixed handling an error of
+non-string package name.
 
 ..
 
@@ -2070,9 +2070,9 @@ Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
 .. section: Build
 
 Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO
-linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when --with-
-optimizations is enabled.  Also improve our ability to find the llvm-
-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
+linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
+``--with-optimizations`` is enabled.  Also improve our ability to find the
+llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a1.rst

@@ -728,8 +728,8 @@ Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
 The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error handlers:
-``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass``. Patch co-
-written with Serhiy Storchaka.
+``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass``. Patch
+co-written with Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 ..
 
@@ -761,8 +761,8 @@ by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function
 instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking
-to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high-
-quality entropy.
+to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such
+high-quality entropy.
 
 ..
 
@@ -891,9 +891,9 @@ string.  Original fix by Ján Janech.
 .. section: Library
 
 The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in
-redirect target URLs.  Some servers send Location header fields with non-
-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be ASCII-
-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on patch by
+redirect target URLs.  Some servers send Location header fields with
+non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target to be
+ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on patch by
 Christian Heimes.
 
 ..
@@ -3328,10 +3328,10 @@ them a 'sheet'.  Patch by Mark Roseman.
 .. nonce: -j_BV7
 .. section: IDLE
 
-Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. * Properly indent
-fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). * Give code snippet a very Sphinx-
-like light blueish-gray background. * Re-use initial width and height set by
-users for shell and editor. * When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used,
+Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. Properly indent
+fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). Give code snippet a very
+Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. Re-use initial width and height set by
+users for shell and editor. When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used,
 put the section header at the top of the screen.
 
 ..
@@ -3651,8 +3651,8 @@ particular on Android).  Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
 .. nonce: HDjM4s
 .. section: Build
 
-Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-
-compiling.  The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
+Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when
+cross-compiling.  The output of these programs is normally saved with the source
 code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by
 Xavier de Gaye.
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0b1.rst

@@ -507,8 +507,8 @@ expression.
 .. nonce: TJ779X
 .. section: Library
 
-xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used by Apache XML-
-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
+xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used by Apache
+XML-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
 
 ..
 
@@ -1416,9 +1416,9 @@ platforms.
 .. section: Build
 
 Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO
-linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when --with-
-optimizations is enabled.  Also improve our ability to find the llvm-
-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
+linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
+``--with-optimizations`` is enabled.  Also improve our ability to find the
+llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0b4.rst

@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
 .. nonce: RYbEGH
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
-Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty
+compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a1.rst

@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security
 vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop
 DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE-2016-0718 (Fix
 regression bugs from 2.2.0's fix to CVE-2016-0718) and CVE-2012-0876
-(Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os-
-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn't impact Python, since Python
+(Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use
+os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn't impact Python, since Python
 already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
 ``XML_SetHashSalt()``.
 
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ ImportError rather than SystemError.
 
 Improve signal delivery.
 
-Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-
-unsafe functions. The tests I'm adding here fail without the rest of the
+Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling
+signal-unsafe functions. The tests I'm adding here fail without the rest of the
 patch, on Linux and OS X. This means our signal delivery logic had defects
 (some signals could be lost).
 
@@ -1153,8 +1153,8 @@ Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.
 .. nonce: RYbEGH
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
-Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-
-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty
+compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
 
 ..
 
@@ -2274,8 +2274,8 @@ LF. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
 .. nonce: N3KI-o
 .. section: Library
 
-os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-
-like argument.
+os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with
+bytes-like argument.
 
 ..
 
@@ -2440,8 +2440,8 @@ leaving a fd in a bad state in case of error. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
 .. nonce: d0nRRA
 .. section: Library
 
-multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in non-
-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took
+multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in
+non-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took
 longer than the timeout.
 
 ..
@@ -2815,8 +2815,8 @@ of space.
 .. section: Library
 
 Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use
-WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes.  Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-
-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
+WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes.  Original PRs by Jim
+Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
 
 ..
 
@@ -3634,8 +3634,8 @@ Removed deprecated features in the http.cookies module.
 .. nonce: CgcjEx
 .. section: Library
 
-A format string argument for string.Formatter.format() is now positional-
-only.
+A format string argument for string.Formatter.format() is now
+positional-only.
 
 ..
 
@@ -5164,8 +5164,8 @@ Fix out-of-tree builds of Python when configured with ``--with--dtrace``.
 .. section: Build
 
 Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during ``make test``, ``make
-install`` and some other make targets when configured with ``--enable-
-optimizations``.
+install`` and some other make targets when configured with
+``--enable-optimizations``.
 
 ..
 
@@ -5213,9 +5213,9 @@ Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
 .. nonce: i8UzRC
 .. section: Build
 
-Prohibit implicit C function declarations: use -Werror=implicit-function-
-declaration when possible (GCC and Clang, but it depends on the compiler
-version). Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
+Prohibit implicit C function declarations: use
+``-Werror=implicit-function-declaration`` when possible (GCC and Clang,
+but it depends on the compiler version). Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
 
 ..
 
@@ -5774,8 +5774,8 @@ All custom keysets are saved as a whole in config- extension.cfg.  All take
 effect as soon as one clicks Apply or Ok.
 
 The affected events are '<<force-open-completions>>', '<<expand-word>>',
-'<<force-open-calltip>>', '<<flash-paren>>', '<<format-paragraph>>', '<<run-
-module>>', '<<check-module>>', and '<<zoom-height>>'.  Any (global)
+'<<force-open-calltip>>', '<<flash-paren>>', '<<format-paragraph>>',
+'<<run-module>>', '<<check-module>>', and '<<zoom-height>>'.  Any (global)
 customizations made before 3.6.3 will not affect their keyset- specific
 customization after 3.6.3. and vice versa.
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a3.rst

@@ -1544,8 +1544,8 @@ Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a character. The
 expanded example give users of non-Latin characters a better idea of what
 they might see in IDLE's shell and editors.
 
-To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are re-
-arranged.  The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
+To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are
+re-arranged.  The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst

@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly.  Instead, use
 .. section: Core and Builtins
 
 Py_Initialize() now creates the GIL. The GIL is no longer created "on
-demand" to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-
-Python thread.
+demand" to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a
+non-Python thread.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-03-29-06-56-12.bpo-32726.urS9uX.rst

 Build and link with private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6 for the macOS 10.6+
 installer. The 10.9+ installer variant already does this.  This means that
 the Python 3.7 provided by the python.org macOS installers no longer need or
-use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or user-
-installed, such as ActiveTcl.
+use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or
+user-installed, such as ActiveTcl.