Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Pylons/pyramid

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/docs/tutorials/wiki/basiclayout.rst b/docs/tutorials/wiki/basiclayout.rst
index da381ad7b..f9d4775ad 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/wiki/basiclayout.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorials/wiki/basiclayout.rst
@@ -4,19 +4,16 @@ Basic Layout
 
 The starter files generated by the ``zodb`` scaffold are basic, but
 they provide a good orientation for the high-level patterns common to most
-:term:`traversal` -based :app:`Pyramid` (and :term:`ZODB` based) projects.
+:term:`traversal` -based :app:`Pyramid` (and :term:`ZODB` -based) projects.
 
-The source code for this tutorial stage can be browsed via
-`http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki/src/basiclayout/
-<http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki/src/basiclayout/>`_.
 
 Application Configuration with ``__init__.py``
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 A directory on disk can be turned into a Python :term:`package` by containing
 an ``__init__.py`` file.  Even if empty, this marks a directory as a Python
-package.  Our application uses ``__init__.py`` as both a package marker, as
-well as to contain application configuration code.
+package.  Our application uses ``__init__.py`` both as a package marker and
+to contain application configuration code.
 
 When you run the application using the ``pserve`` command using the
 ``development.ini`` generated config file, the application configuration
@@ -31,14 +28,14 @@ point happens to be the ``main`` function within the file named
 
 #. *Lines 1-3*.  Perform some dependency imports.
 
-#. *Lines 6-8*  Define a root factory for our Pyramid application.
+#. *Lines 6-8*.  Define a root factory for our Pyramid application.
 
 #. *Line 14*.  We construct a :term:`Configurator` with a :term:`root
    factory` and the settings keywords parsed by :term:`PasteDeploy`.  The root
    factory is named ``root_factory``.
 
-#. *Line 15*.  Register a 'static view' which answers requests which start
-   with URL path ``/static`` using the
+#. *Line 15*.  Register a "static view" which answers requests whose URL path
+   start with ``/static`` using the
    :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.add_static_view method`.  This
    statement registers a view that will serve up static assets, such as CSS
    and image files, for us, in this case, at
@@ -47,16 +44,16 @@ point happens to be the ``main`` function within the file named
    will be ``/static``.  The second argument of this tag is the "path",
    which is a relative :term:`asset specification`, so it finds the resources
    it should serve within the ``static`` directory inside the ``tutorial``
-   package.  The scaffold could have alternately used an *absolute* asset
-   specification as the path (``tutorial:static``) but it does not.
+   package.  Alternatively the scaffold could have used an *absolute* asset
+   specification as the path (``tutorial:static``).
 
 #. *Line 16*.  Perform a :term:`scan`.  A scan will find :term:`configuration
-   decoration`, such as view configuration decorators (e.g. ``@view_config``)
+   decoration`, such as view configuration decorators (e.g., ``@view_config``)
    in the source code of the ``tutorial`` package and will take actions based
    on these decorators.  We don't pass any arguments to
    :meth:`~pyramid.config.Configurator.scan`, which implies that the scan
    should take place in the current package (in this case, ``tutorial``).
-   The scaffold could have equivalently said ``config.scan('tutorial')`` but
+   The scaffold could have equivalently said ``config.scan('tutorial')``, but
    it chose to omit the package name argument.
 
 #. *Line 17*.  Use the
@@ -73,7 +70,7 @@ tree represents the site structure, but it *also* represents the
 :term:`domain model` of the application, because each resource is a node
 stored persistently in a :term:`ZODB` database.  The ``models.py`` file is
 where the ``zodb`` scaffold put the classes that implement our
-resource objects, each of which happens also to be a domain model object.
+resource objects, each of which also happens to be a domain model object.
 
 Here is the source for ``models.py``:
 
@@ -82,7 +79,7 @@ Here is the source for ``models.py``:
       :language: py
 
 #. *Lines 4-5*.  The ``MyModel`` :term:`resource` class is implemented here.
-   Instances of this class will be capable of being persisted in :term:`ZODB`
+   Instances of this class are capable of being persisted in :term:`ZODB`
    because the class inherits from the
    :class:`persistent.mapping.PersistentMapping` class.  The ``__parent__``
    and ``__name__`` are important parts of the :term:`traversal` protocol.
@@ -140,7 +137,7 @@ Let's try to understand the components in this module:
    indeed if you look in the ``templates`` directory of this package, you'll
    see a ``mytemplate.pt`` template file, which renders the default home page
    of the generated project.  This asset specification is *relative* (to the
-   view.py's current package).  We could have alternately an used the
+   view.py's current package).  Alternatively we could have used the
    absolute asset specification ``tutorial:templates/mytemplate.pt``, but
    chose to use the relative version.
 
@@ -168,7 +165,7 @@ opposed to the tutorial :term:`package` directory) looks like this:
 .. literalinclude:: src/basiclayout/development.ini
    :language: ini
 
-Note the existence of an ``[app:main]`` section which specifies our WSGI
+Note the existence of a ``[app:main]`` section which specifies our WSGI
 application.  Our ZODB database settings are specified as the
 ``zodbconn.uri`` setting within this section.  This value, and the other
 values within this section are passed as ``**settings`` to the ``main``