gh-101100: Fix references in csv docs (GH-114658)

smontanaro · hugovk · web-flow · commit 3911b42cc0d4 · 2024-01-30T21:54:37.000Z
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade &lt;1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions:
 
    Return a writer object responsible for converting the user's data into delimited
    strings on the given file-like object.  *csvfile* can be any object with a
-   :func:`write` method.  If *csvfile* is a file object, it should be opened with
+   :meth:`~io.TextIOBase.write` method.  If *csvfile* is a file object, it should be opened with
    ``newline=''`` [1]_.  An optional *dialect*
    parameter can be given which is used to define a set of parameters specific to a
    particular CSV dialect.  It may be an instance of a subclass of the
@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes:
    Create an object which operates like a regular writer but maps dictionaries
    onto output rows.  The *fieldnames* parameter is a :mod:`sequence
    <collections.abc>` of keys that identify the order in which values in the
-   dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method are written to file
+   dictionary passed to the :meth:`~csvwriter.writerow` method are written to file
    *f*.  The optional *restval* parameter specifies the value to be
    written if the dictionary is missing a key in *fieldnames*.  If the
-   dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method contains a key not found in
+   dictionary passed to the :meth:`~csvwriter.writerow` method contains a key not found in
    *fieldnames*, the optional *extrasaction* parameter indicates what action to
    take.
    If it is set to ``'raise'``, the default value, a :exc:`ValueError`
@@ -374,8 +374,8 @@ Dialects and Formatting Parameters
 
 To make it easier to specify the format of input and output records, specific
 formatting parameters are grouped together into dialects.  A dialect is a
-subclass of the :class:`Dialect` class having a set of specific methods and a
-single :meth:`validate` method.  When creating :class:`reader` or
+subclass of the :class:`Dialect` class containing various attributes
+describing the format of the CSV file.  When creating :class:`reader` or
 :class:`writer` objects, the programmer can specify a string or a subclass of
 the :class:`Dialect` class as the dialect parameter.  In addition to, or instead
 of, the *dialect* parameter, the programmer can also specify individual
@@ -492,9 +492,9 @@ DictReader objects have the following public attribute:
 Writer Objects
 --------------
 
-:class:`Writer` objects (:class:`DictWriter` instances and objects returned by
+:class:`writer` objects (:class:`DictWriter` instances and objects returned by
 the :func:`writer` function) have the following public methods.  A *row* must be
-an iterable of strings or numbers for :class:`Writer` objects and a dictionary
+an iterable of strings or numbers for :class:`writer` objects and a dictionary
 mapping fieldnames to strings or numbers (by passing them through :func:`str`
 first) for :class:`DictWriter` objects.  Note that complex numbers are written
 out surrounded by parens. This may cause some problems for other programs which
diff --git a/Doc/tools/.nitignore b/Doc/tools/.nitignore
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ Doc/library/asyncio-policy.rst
 Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
 Doc/library/bdb.rst
 Doc/library/collections.rst
-Doc/library/csv.rst
 Doc/library/dbm.rst
 Doc/library/decimal.rst
 Doc/library/email.charset.rst
