[Documentation] Fix lowercase DLL names and standardize uppercase X for variable version number

CHANGES.txt

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Build 305, released 2022-11-06
   from there. (#1908)
 
 * Dropped support for allowing a bytes object to be passed where a COM BSTR
-  is expected - this support was accidental on the path from 2.x->3.x.
+  is expected - this support was accidental on the path from Python 2 -> 3.
 
 * win32crypt's PyCERTSTORE.CertCloseStore()'s `Flags` argument has been
   deprecated as it is likely to crash the process if

adodbapi/adodbapi.py

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def getIndexedValue(obj, index):
 
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 
-# --- define objects to smooth out Python3000 <-> Python 2.x differences
+# --- define objects to smooth out Python3000 <-> Python 2 differences
 unicodeType = str
 longType = int
 StringTypes = str

adodbapi/apibase.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     DateTime = type(NotImplemented)  # should never be seen on win32
     NullTypes = type(None)
 
-# --- define objects to smooth out Python3 <-> Python 2.x differences
+# --- define objects to smooth out Python3 <-> Python 2 differences
 unicodeType = str
 longType = int
 StringTypes = str
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def standardErrorHandler(connection, cursor, errorclass, errorvalue):
     raise errorclass(errorvalue)
 
 
-# Note: _BaseException is defined differently between Python 2.x and 3.x
+# Note: _BaseException is defined differently between Python 2 and 3
 class Error(_BaseException):
     pass  # Exception that is the base class of all other error
     # exceptions. You can use this to catch all errors with one

adodbapi/remote.py

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 if verbose:
     print(version)
 
-# --- define objects to smooth out Python3 <-> Python 2.x differences
+# --- define objects to smooth out Python3 <-> Python 2 differences
 unicodeType = str  # this line will be altered by 2to3.py to '= str'
 longType = int  # this line will be altered by 2to3.py to '= int'
 StringTypes = str

adodbapi/test/dbapi20.py

@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
 import time
 import unittest
 
-if sys.version[0] >= "3":  # python 3.x
+if sys.version[0] >= "3":  # Python 3
     _BaseException = Exception
 
     def _failUnless(self, expr, msg=None):
         self.assertTrue(expr, msg)
 
-else:  # python 2.x
+else:  # Python 2
     from exceptions import Exception as _BaseException
 
     def _failUnless(self, expr, msg=None):

com/pythoncom.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Magic utility that "redirects" to pythoncomxx.dll
+# Magic utility that "redirects" to pythoncomXX.dll
 import pywintypes
 
 pywintypes.__import_pywin32_system_module__("pythoncom", globals())

com/win32com/src/PythonCOMLoader.cpp

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-// *sob* - a simple loader for pythoncomxx.dll - but this DLL has a
-// manifest referencing the CRT whereas pythoncomxx.dll does not.
+// *sob* - a simple loader for pythoncomXX.dll - but this DLL has a
+// manifest referencing the CRT whereas pythoncomXX.dll does not.
 #include "windows.h"
 #include "tchar.h"
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ typedef HRESULT(STDAPICALLTYPE *PFNDllGetClassObject)(REFCLSID rclsid, REFIID ri
 PFNDllGetClassObject pfnDllGetClassObject = NULL;
 
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// Loads pythoncomxx.dll after activating our context and delegates the call to it.
+// Loads pythoncomXX.dll after activating our context and delegates the call to it.
 STDAPI DllGetClassObject(REFCLSID rclsid, REFIID riid, LPVOID *ppv)
 {
     if (pfnDllGetClassObject == 0) {

com/win32com/src/include/PythonCOM.h

@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
 #define PYCOM_EXPORT
 #else
 #ifdef BUILD_PYTHONCOM
-/* We are building pythoncomxx.dll */
+/* We are building pythoncomXX.dll */
 #define PYCOM_EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
 #else
-/* This module uses pythoncomxx.dll */
+/* This module uses pythoncomXX.dll */
 #define PYCOM_EXPORT __declspec(dllimport)
 #ifndef _DEBUG
 #pragma comment(lib, "pythoncom.lib")

com/win32com/src/oleargs.cpp

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ BOOL PyCom_VariantFromPyObject(PyObject *obj, VARIANT *var)
         }
         V_VT(var) = VT_BSTR;
     }
-    // For 3.x, bool checks need to be above PyLong_Check, which now succeeds for booleans.
+    // For Python 3, bool checks need to be above PyLong_Check, which now succeeds for booleans.
     else if (obj == Py_True) {
         V_VT(var) = VT_BOOL;
         V_BOOL(var) = VARIANT_TRUE;
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ static BOOL PyCom_SAFEARRAYFromPyObjectBuildDimension(PyObject *obj, SAFEARRAY *
 static long PyCom_CalculatePyObjectDimension(PyObject *obItemCheck, long lDimension, PyObject *ppyobDimensionDictionary)
 {
     // Buffers are a special case - they define 1 new dimension.
-    // Buffers supported sequence semantics in 2.x, but for some reason memoryview objects
+    // Buffers supported sequence semantics in Python 2, but for some reason memoryview objects
     //	in py3k do not, so check separately
     if (PYWIN_BUFFER_CHECK(obItemCheck))
         return lDimension + 1;

com/win32com/test/testGIT.py

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def test(fn):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     test(BeginThreadsSimpleMarshal)
     win32api.Sleep(500)
-    # Doing CoUninit here stop Pythoncom.dll hanging when DLLMain shuts-down the process
+    # Doing CoUninit here stop pythoncom.dll hanging when DLLMain shuts-down the process
     pythoncom.CoUninitialize()
     if pythoncom._GetInterfaceCount() != 0 or pythoncom._GetGatewayCount() != 0:
         print(

com/win32comext/mapi/src/mapi_stub_library/StubUtils.cpp

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ HMODULE LoadMailClientFromMSIData(HKEY hkeyMapiClient)
 
 /*
  *  LoadMAPIFromSystemDir
- *		Fall back for loading System32\Mapi32.dll if all else fails
+ *		Fall back for loading System32\mapi32.dll if all else fails
  */
 HMODULE LoadMAPIFromSystemDir()
 {

com/win32comext/propsys/src/propsys.cpp

@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static PyObject *PyPSGetPropertyFromPropertyStorage(PyObject *self, PyObject *ar
     PROPERTYKEY key;
     PROPVARIANT val;
     PyObject *obbuf;
-    // @pyparm buffer|ps||Bytes or buffer (or str in python 2) containing a serialized property set (see <om
+    // @pyparm buffer|ps||Bytes or buffer (or str in Python 2) containing a serialized property set (see <om
     // PyIPersistSerializedPropStorage.GetPropertyStorage>)
     // @pyparm <o PyPROPERTYKEY>|key||Property to return
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OO&:PSGetPropertyFromPropertyStorage", &obbuf, PyWinObject_AsPROPERTYKEY, &key))
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static PyObject *PyPSGetNamedPropertyFromPropertyStorage(PyObject *self, PyObjec
     TmpWCHAR name;
     PROPVARIANT val;
     PyObject *obname, *obbuf;
-    // @pyparm buffer|ps||Bytes or buffer (or str in python 2) containing a serialized property set (see <om
+    // @pyparm buffer|ps||Bytes or buffer (or str in Python 2) containing a serialized property set (see <om
     // PyIPersistSerializedPropStorage.GetPropertyStorage>)
     // @pyparm str|name||Property to return
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OO:PSGetNamedPropertyFromPropertyStorage", &obbuf, &obname))

com/win32comext/taskscheduler/test/test_addtask_2.py

@@ -20,10 +20,9 @@
 
 t = ts.NewWorkItem(task_name)
 t.SetComment("Test a task running as local system acct")
-t.SetApplicationName("c:\\Python37\\python.exe")
+t.SetApplicationName("py.exe")
 t.SetPriority(taskscheduler.REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS)
 t.SetParameters("test_localsystem.py")
-t.SetWorkingDirectory("c:\\Python37")
 t.SetCreator("test_addtask_2.py")
 t.SetMaxRunTime(20000)  # milliseconds
 t.SetFlags(taskscheduler.TASK_FLAG_DELETE_WHEN_DONE)

pywin32_postinstall.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # postinstall script for pywin32
 #
-# copies PyWinTypesxx.dll and PythonCOMxx.dll into the system directory,
+# copies pywintypesXX.dll and pythoncomXX.dll into the system directory,
 # and creates a pth file
 import glob
 import os

setup.py

@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ def swig_sources(self, sources, ext=None):
                         # A class deriving from other than the default
                         swig_cmd.extend(["-com_interface_parent", interface_parent])
 
-            # This 'newer' check helps python 2.2 builds, which otherwise
+            # This 'newer' check helps Python 2.2 builds, which otherwise
             # *always* regenerate the .cpp files, meaning every future
             # build for any platform sees these as dirty.
             # This could probably go once we generate .cpp into the temp dir.

win32/Demos/c_extension/win32_extension.cpp

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Note: this sample does nothing useful other than to show you how
 // your own Python extension can link with and use the functions from
-// pywintypesxx.dll
+// pywintypesXX.dll
 #include "Python.h"
 #include "PyWinTypes.h"
 

win32/Demos/win32cred_demo.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 mc = win32cred.CredMarshalCredential(win32cred.UsernameTargetCredential, target)
 
 # As of pywin32 301 this no longer works for markh and unclear when it stopped, or
-# even if it ever did! # Fails in Python 2.7 too, so not a 3.x regression.
+# even if it ever did! # Fails in Python 2.7 too, so not a Python 3 regression.
 try:
     th = win32security.LogonUser(
         mc,

win32/Lib/pywintypes.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Magic utility that "redirects" to pywintypesxx.dll
+# Magic utility that "redirects" to pywintypesXX.dll
 import importlib.machinery
 import importlib.util
 import os
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def __import_pywin32_system_module__(modname, globs):
             # first (which is how we are here) or if, eg, win32api was imported
             # first thereby implicitly loading the DLL.
 
-            # Sadly though, it doesn't quite work - if pywintypesxx.dll
+            # Sadly though, it doesn't quite work - if pywintypesXX.dll
             # is in system32 *and* the executable's directory, on XP SP2, an
             # import of win32api will cause Windows to load pywintypes
             # from system32, where LoadLibrary for that name will

win32/Lib/win32con.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 OFN_NOLONGNAMES = 262144
 OFN_EXPLORER = 524288  # new look commdlg
 OFN_NODEREFERENCELINKS = 1048576
-OFN_LONGNAMES = 2097152  # force long names for 3.x modules
+OFN_LONGNAMES = 2097152  # force long names for Python 3 modules
 OFN_ENABLEINCLUDENOTIFY = 4194304  # send include message to callback
 OFN_ENABLESIZING = 8388608
 OFN_DONTADDTORECENT = 33554432

win32/scripts/regsetup.py

@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ def RegisterShellInfo(searchPaths):
 "regsetup c:\\wierd\\spot\\1 c:\\wierd\\spot\\2"
 Attempts to setup the core Python.  Looks in some standard places,
 as well as the 2 wierd spots to locate the core Python files (eg, Python.exe,
-pythonXX.dll, the standard library and Win32 Extensions.
+pythonXX.dll, the standard library and Win32 Extensions).
 
 "regsetup -a myappname . .\subdir"
 Registers a new Pythonpath entry named myappname, with "C:\\I\\AM\\HERE" and

win32/scripts/setup_d.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Install and register pythonXX_d.dll, pywintypesxx_d.dll and pythoncomxx_d.dll
+# Install and register pythonXX_d.dll, pywintypesXX_d.dll and pythoncomXX_d.dll
 #
 # Assumes the _d files can be found in the same directory as this script
 # or in the cwd.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 def usage_and_die(rc):
     print()
     print("This script is designed to copy and register the Python debug")
-    print("binaries.  It looks for pythonXX_d.dll, pythoncomxx_d.dll etc,")
+    print("binaries.  It looks for pythonXX_d.dll, pythoncomXX_d.dll etc,")
     print("and installs them to work correctly with Python debug builds.")
     print()
     print("You will generally find this script in the. zip file that")

win32/src/PyTime.cpp

@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ PyObject *PyWin_NewTime(PyObject *timeOb)
         PyObject *ret = PyDateTimeAPI->DateTime_FromTimestamp((PyObject *)(&PyWinDateTimeType), args, NULL);
         if (ret == NULL) {
             // datetime throws an OSError on failure, but for compatibility with
-            // Python 2.x, we turn that into a ValueError.
+        // Python 2, we turn that into a ValueError.
             PyErr_Clear();
             PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "invalid timestamp");
         }

win32/src/PyUnicode.cpp

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ BOOL PyWinObject_AsPfnAllocatedWCHAR(PyObject *stringObject, void *(*pfnAllocato
 {
     BOOL rc = TRUE;
     if (PyBytes_Check(stringObject)) {
-        // XXX - this was ported from the python 2 string api - which I thought
-        // included the trailing \0. But the 3.x `Bytes` API does not (right?),
+        // XXX - this was ported from the Python 2 string api - which I thought
+        // included the trailing \0. But the Python 3 `Bytes` API does not (right?),
         // so there's some trailing \0 confusion here.
         Py_ssize_t cch = PyBytes_Size(stringObject);
         const char *buf = PyBytes_AsString(stringObject);
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void PyWin_AutoFreeBstr::SetBstr(BSTR bstr)
 BOOL PyWinObject_AsBstr(PyObject *stringObject, BSTR *pResult, BOOL bNoneOK /*= FALSE*/, DWORD *pResultLen /*= NULL*/)
 {
     BOOL rc = TRUE;
-    // This used to support bytes as we moved to 3.x, but a BSTR has always been
+    // This used to support bytes as we moved to Python 3, but a BSTR has always been
     // unicode (ie, you'd never *try* and use bytes to create it), so there's no
     // sane b/w compat reason to support that any more.
     if (PyUnicode_Check(stringObject)) {

win32/src/PyWinTypes.h

@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ typedef Py_ssize_t Py_hash_t;
 #include "mmsystem.h"
 
 #ifdef BUILD_PYWINTYPES
-/* We are building pywintypesxx.dll */
+/* We are building pywintypesXX.dll */
 #define PYWINTYPES_EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
 #else
-/* This module uses pywintypesxx.dll */
+/* This module uses pywintypesXX.dll */
 #define PYWINTYPES_EXPORT __declspec(dllimport)
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)
 #if defined(DEBUG) || defined(_DEBUG)
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ PYWINTYPES_EXPORT PyObject *PyWin_SetBasicCOMError(HRESULT hr);
 // *************
 // strings, which are a bit of a mess!
 //
-// This has gone from 2.x ascii-only, to 2.x+3.x ascii-or-unicode, to 3.x unicode-only,
+// This has gone from Python 2 ascii-only, to Py2+Py3k ascii-or-unicode, to Python 3 unicode-only,
 // - this baggage means some strange APIs which convert to and from "char *" in various ways.
 //
 // A sizes/lengths are reported as a `DWORD` rather than a `Py_ssize_t`, that's what the callers

win32/src/PyWinTypesmodule.cpp

@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ BOOL PyWinObject_AsDWORDArray(PyObject *obdwords, DWORD **pdwords, DWORD *item_c
         for (tuple_index = 0; tuple_index < *item_cnt; tuple_index++) {
             tuple_item = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(dwords_tuple, tuple_index);
             // Doesn't check for overflow, but will accept a python long
-            //  greater than INT_MAX (even on python 2.3).  Also accepts
+            //  greater than INT_MAX (even on Python 2.3).  Also accepts
             //  negatives and converts to the correct hex representation
             (*pdwords)[tuple_index] = PyLong_AsUnsignedLongMask(tuple_item);
             if (((*pdwords)[tuple_index] == -1) && PyErr_Occurred()) {
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ int PyWinGlobals_Ensure()
         // @tupleitem 3|None/int|argerror|The index of the argument in error, or (usually) None or -1
     }
 
-    /* PyType_Ready *needs* to be called anytime pywintypesxx.dll is loaded, since
+    /* PyType_Ready *needs* to be called anytime pywintypesXX.dll is loaded, since
         other extension modules can use types defined here without pywintypes itself
         having been imported.
         ??? All extension modules that call this need to be changed to check the exit code ???

win32/src/_win32sysloader.cpp

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ See pywintypes.py for more information.
 
 ********************************************************************/
 #include "windows.h"
-// Windows rpc.h defines "small" as "char" and Python 3.x's accu.h uses
+// Windows rpc.h defines "small" as "char" and Python 3's accu.h uses
 // "small" as a structure element causing compilation errors :(
 #ifdef small
 #undef small

win32/src/odbc.cpp

@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ PYWIN_MODULE_INIT_FUNC(odbc)
     }
 
     /* Names of various sql datatypes.
-        's' format of Py_BuildValue creates unicode on py3k, and char string on 2.x
+        's' format of Py_BuildValue creates unicode on py3k, and char string on Python 2
     */
     char *szDbiString = "STRING";
     char *szDbiRaw = "RAW";

win32/src/win32file.i

@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ static PyObject *PySetFileTime (PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs
 	PyObject *obLastWriteTime = Py_None;  // @pyparm <o PyDateTime>|LastWriteTime|None|File written time. None for no change.
 	BOOL UTCTimes = FALSE;    // @pyparm boolean|UTCTimes|False|If True, input times are treated as UTC and no conversion is done, 
 							  // otherwise they are treated as local times.  Defaults to False for backward compatibility.
-							  // This parameter is ignored in Python 3.x, where you should always pass datetime objects
+							  // This parameter is ignored in Python 3, where you should always pass datetime objects
 							  // with timezone information.
 
 	static char *keywords[] = {"File", "CreationTime", "LastAccessTime", "LastWriteTime", "UTCTimes", NULL};

win32/src/win32helpmodule.cpp

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ generates Windows .hlp files.
 
 #if _MSC_VER == 1500
 // This uses htmlhelp.lib, which causes an unresolved external for
-// __report_rangecheckfailure with vs2008 (which is what we used for python 2.x)
+// __report_rangecheckfailure with vs2008 (which is what we used for Python 2)
 // No idea why, but we define it here and cause it to kill the process if it is ever hit.
 extern "C" __declspec(noreturn, dllexport) void __cdecl __report_rangecheckfailure(void) { ::ExitProcess(1); }
 #endif