Backport PR #14784: Tiny docs/comments cleanups.

timhoffm · MeeseeksDev[bot] · commit 8937aa5a098e · 2019-07-17T06:41:51.000Z
diff --git a/examples/user_interfaces/svg_histogram_sgskip.py b/examples/user_interfaces/svg_histogram_sgskip.py
@@ -43,9 +43,8 @@
 
 plt.rcParams['svg.fonttype'] = 'none'
 
-# Apparently, this `register_namespace` method works only with
-# python 2.7 and up and is necessary to avoid garbling the XML name
-# space with ns0.
+# Apparently, this `register_namespace` method is necessary to avoid garbling
+# the XML namespace with ns0.
 ET.register_namespace("", "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
 
 # Fixing random state for reproducibility
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/image.py b/lib/matplotlib/image.py
@@ -1359,8 +1359,8 @@ def imread(fname, format=None):
     Parameters
     ----------
     fname : str or file-like
-        The image file to read. This can be a filename, a URL or a Python
-        file-like object opened in read-binary mode.
+        The image file to read: a filename, a URL or a file-like object opened
+        in read-binary mode.
     format : str, optional
         The image file format assumed for reading the data. If not
         given, the format is deduced from the filename.  If nothing can
@@ -1443,8 +1443,8 @@ def imsave(fname, arr, vmin=None, vmax=None, cmap=None, format=None,
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    fname : str or PathLike file-like
-        A path or a Python file-like object to store the image in.
+    fname : str or PathLike or file-like
+        A path or a file-like object to store the image in.
         If *format* is not set, then the output format is inferred from the
         extension of *fname*, if any, and from :rc:`savefig.format` otherwise.
         If *format* is set, it determines the output format.
