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[3.13] Replace ambiguous word "pound" by "hash" in difflib docs (GH-139601) #139617

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[3.13] Replace ambiguous word "pound" by "hash" in difflib docs (GH-139601) #139617

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Expand Up @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ diffs. For comparing directories and files, see also, the :mod:`filecmp` module.
*linejunk*: A function that accepts a single string argument, and returns
true if the string is junk, or false if not. The default is ``None``. There
is also a module-level function :func:`IS_LINE_JUNK`, which filters out lines
without visible characters, except for at most one pound character (``'#'``)
without visible characters, except for at most one hash character (``'#'``)
-- however the underlying :class:`SequenceMatcher` class does a dynamic
analysis of which lines are so frequent as to constitute noise, and this
usually works better than using this function.
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