bpo-33892: Doc: Use gender neutral words (GH-7770)

Doc/c-api/memory.rst

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ operate within the bounds of the private heap.
 
 It is important to understand that the management of the Python heap is
 performed by the interpreter itself and that the user has no control over it,
-even if she regularly manipulates object pointers to memory blocks inside that
+even if they regularly manipulate object pointers to memory blocks inside that
 heap.  The allocation of heap space for Python objects and other internal
 buffers is performed on demand by the Python memory manager through the Python/C
 API functions listed in this document.

Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ specialty---writing code and creating source distributions---while an
 intermediary species called *packagers* springs up to turn source distributions
 into built distributions for as many platforms as there are packagers.
 
-Of course, the module developer could be his own packager; or the packager could
+Of course, the module developer could be their own packager; or the packager could
 be a volunteer "out there" somewhere who has access to a platform which the
 original developer does not; or it could be software periodically grabbing new
 source distributions and turning them into built distributions for as many

Doc/distutils/introduction.rst

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ containing your setup script :file:`setup.py`, and your module :file:`foo.py`.
 The archive file will be named :file:`foo-1.0.tar.gz` (or :file:`.zip`), and
 will unpack into a directory :file:`foo-1.0`.
 
-If an end-user wishes to install your :mod:`foo` module, all she has to do is
+If an end-user wishes to install your :mod:`foo` module, all they have to do is
 download :file:`foo-1.0.tar.gz` (or :file:`.zip`), unpack it, and---from the
 :file:`foo-1.0` directory---run ::
 

Doc/library/hashlib.rst

@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ on the hash function used in digital signatures.
     preparer, generates all or part of a message to be signed by a second
     party, the message signer. If the message preparer is able to find
     cryptographic hash function collisions (i.e., two messages producing the
-    same hash value), then she might prepare meaningful versions of the message
+    same hash value), then they might prepare meaningful versions of the message
     that would produce the same hash value and digital signature, but with
     different results (e.g., transferring $1,000,000 to an account, rather than
     $10). Cryptographic hash functions have been designed with collision

Doc/library/optparse.rst

@@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ The callback function should raise :exc:`OptionValueError` if there are any
 problems with the option or its argument(s).  :mod:`optparse` catches this and
 terminates the program, printing the error message you supply to stderr.  Your
 message should be clear, concise, accurate, and mention the option at fault.
-Otherwise, the user will have a hard time figuring out what he did wrong.
+Otherwise, the user will have a hard time figuring out what they did wrong.
 
 
 .. _optparse-callback-example-1:

Doc/library/re.rst

@@ -1450,8 +1450,8 @@ Finding all Adverbs
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 :func:`findall` matches *all* occurrences of a pattern, not just the first
-one as :func:`search` does.  For example, if one was a writer and wanted to
+one as :func:`search` does.  For example, if a writer wanted to
-find all of the adverbs in some text, he or she might use :func:`findall` in
+find all of the adverbs in some text, they might use :func:`findall` in
 the following manner::
 
    >>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
@@ -1465,8 +1465,8 @@ Finding all Adverbs and their Positions
 If one wants more information about all matches of a pattern than the matched
 text, :func:`finditer` is useful as it provides :ref:`match objects
 <match-objects>` instead of strings.  Continuing with the previous example, if
-one was a writer who wanted to find all of the adverbs *and their positions* in
+a writer wanted to find all of the adverbs *and their positions* in
-some text, he or she would use :func:`finditer` in the following manner::
+some text, they would use :func:`finditer` in the following manner::
 
    >>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
    >>> for m in re.finditer(r"\w+ly", text):

Doc/library/ssl.rst

@@ -1991,7 +1991,7 @@ message with one of the parts, you can decrypt it with the other part, and
 
 A certificate contains information about two principals.  It contains the name
 of a *subject*, and the subject's public key.  It also contains a statement by a
-second principal, the *issuer*, that the subject is who he claims to be, and
+second principal, the *issuer*, that the subject is who they claim to be, and
 that this is indeed the subject's public key.  The issuer's statement is signed
 with the issuer's private key, which only the issuer knows.  However, anyone can
 verify the issuer's statement by finding the issuer's public key, decrypting the

Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst

@@ -143,12 +143,12 @@ to escape quotes::
    "doesn't"
    >>> "doesn't"  # ...or use double quotes instead
    "doesn't"
-   >>> '"Yes," he said.'
+   >>> '"Yes," they said.'
-   '"Yes," he said.'
+   '"Yes," they said.'
-   >>> "\"Yes,\" he said."
+   >>> "\"Yes,\" they said."
-   '"Yes," he said.'
+   '"Yes," they said.'
-   >>> '"Isn\'t," she said.'
+   >>> '"Isn\'t," they said.'
-   '"Isn\'t," she said.'
+   '"Isn\'t," they said.'
 
 In the interactive interpreter, the output string is enclosed in quotes and
 special characters are escaped with backslashes.  While this might sometimes
@@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ enclosed in single quotes.  The :func:`print` function produces a more
 readable output, by omitting the enclosing quotes and by printing escaped
 and special characters::
 
-   >>> '"Isn\'t," she said.'
+   >>> '"Isn\'t," they said.'
-   '"Isn\'t," she said.'
+   '"Isn\'t," they said.'
-   >>> print('"Isn\'t," she said.')
+   >>> print('"Isn\'t," they said.')
-   "Isn't," she said.
+   "Isn't," they said.
    >>> s = 'First line.\nSecond line.'  # \n means newline
    >>> s  # without print(), \n is included in the output
    'First line.\nSecond line.'