gh-95273: Normalise sqlite3 reference wording (#95274)

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: CAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>

Doc/library/sqlite3.rst

@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ Module functions and constants
 
 .. data:: version
 
- The version number of this module, as a string. This is not the version of
- the SQLite library.
+ Version number of this module as a :class:`string <str>`.
+ This is not the version of the SQLite library.
 
  .. deprecated-removed:: 3.12 3.14
  This constant used to reflect the version number of the ``pysqlite``
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ Module functions and constants
 
 .. data:: version_info
 
- The version number of this module, as a tuple of integers. This is not the
- version of the SQLite library.
+ Version number of this module as a :class:`tuple` of :class:`integers <int>`.
+ This is not the version of the SQLite library.
 
  .. deprecated-removed:: 3.12 3.14
  This constant used to reflect the version number of the ``pysqlite``
@@ -171,12 +171,13 @@ Module functions and constants
 
 .. data:: sqlite_version
 
- The version number of the run-time SQLite library, as a string.
+ Version number of the runtime SQLite library as a :class:`string <str>`.
 
 
 .. data:: sqlite_version_info
 
- The version number of the run-time SQLite library, as a tuple of integers.
+ Version number of the runtime SQLite library as a :class:`tuple` of
+ :class:`integers <int>`.
 
 
 .. data:: threadsafety
@@ -379,6 +380,7 @@ Module functions and constants
 
 .. function:: enable_callback_tracebacks(flag, /)
 
+ Enable or disable callback tracebacks.
  By default you will not get any tracebacks in user-defined functions,
  aggregates, converters, authorizer callbacks etc. If you want to debug them,
  you can call this function with *flag* set to :const:`True`. Afterwards, you
@@ -438,6 +440,7 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. method:: cursor(factory=Cursor)
 
+ Create and return a :class:`Cursor` object.
  The cursor method accepts a single optional parameter *factory*. If
  supplied, this must be a callable returning an instance of :class:`Cursor`
  or its subclasses.
@@ -648,9 +651,9 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. method:: interrupt()
 
- You can call this method from a different thread to abort any queries that might
- be executing on the connection. The query will then abort and the caller will
- get an exception.
+ Call this method from a different thread to abort any queries that might
+ be executing on the connection.
+ Aborted queries will raise an exception.
 
 
  .. method:: set_authorizer(authorizer_callback)
@@ -755,10 +758,9 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. attribute:: row_factory
 
- You can change this attribute to a callable that accepts the cursor and the
- original row as a tuple and will return the real result row. This way, you can
- implement more advanced ways of returning results, such as returning an object
- that can also access columns by name.
+ A callable that accepts two arguments,
+ a :class:`Cursor` object and the raw row results as a :class:`tuple`,
+ and returns a custom object representing an SQLite row.
 
  Example:
 
@@ -776,31 +778,28 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. attribute:: text_factory
 
- Using this attribute you can control what objects are returned for the ``TEXT``
- data type. By default, this attribute is set to :class:`str` and the
- :mod:`sqlite3` module will return :class:`str` objects for ``TEXT``.
- If you want to return :class:`bytes` instead, you can set it to :class:`bytes`.
+ A callable that accepts a :class:`bytes` parameter and returns a text
+ representation of it.
+ The callable is invoked for SQLite values with the ``TEXT`` data type.
+ By default, this attribute is set to :class:`str`.
+ If you want to return ``bytes`` instead, set *text_factory* to ``bytes``.
 
- You can also set it to any other callable that accepts a single bytestring
- parameter and returns the resulting object.
-
- See the following example code for illustration:
+ Example:
 
  .. literalinclude:: ../includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
 
 
  .. attribute:: total_changes
 
- Returns the total number of database rows that have been modified, inserted, or
+ Return the total number of database rows that have been modified, inserted, or
  deleted since the database connection was opened.
 
 
  .. method:: iterdump
 
- Returns an iterator to dump the database in an SQL text format. Useful when
- saving an in-memory database for later restoration. This function provides
- the same capabilities as the :kbd:`.dump` command in the :program:`sqlite3`
- shell.
+ Return an :term:`iterator` to dump the database as SQL source code.
+ Useful when saving an in-memory database for later restoration.
+ Similar to the ``.dump`` command in the :program:`sqlite3` shell.
 
  Example::
 
@@ -881,7 +880,7 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. method:: getlimit(category, /)
 
- Get a connection run-time limit. *category* is the limit category to be
+ Get a connection runtime limit. *category* is the limit category to be
  queried.
 
  Example, query the maximum length of an SQL statement::
@@ -896,7 +895,7 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. method:: setlimit(category, limit, /)
 
- Set a connection run-time limit. *category* is the limit category to be
+ Set a connection runtime limit. *category* is the limit category to be
  set. *limit* is the new limit. If the new limit is a negative number, the
  limit is unchanged.
 
@@ -915,7 +914,7 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. method:: serialize(*, name="main")
 
- This method serializes a database into a :class:`bytes` object. For an
+ Serialize a database into a :class:`bytes` object. For an
  ordinary on-disk database file, the serialization is just a copy of the
  disk file. For an in-memory database or a "temp" database, the
  serialization is the same sequence of bytes which would be written to
@@ -934,6 +933,8 @@ Connection Objects
 
  .. method:: deserialize(data, /, *, name="main")
 
+ Deserialize a :meth:`serialized <serialize>` database into a
+ :class:`Connection`.
  This method causes the database connection to disconnect from database
  *name*, and reopen *name* as an in-memory database based on the
  serialization contained in *data*. Deserialization will raise
@@ -1013,20 +1014,20 @@ Cursor Objects
 
  .. method:: fetchone()
 
- Fetches the next row of a query result set, returning a single sequence,
- or :const:`None` when no more data is available.
+ Fetch the next row of a query result set as a :class:`tuple`.
+ Return :const:`None` if no more data is available.
 
 
  .. method:: fetchmany(size=cursor.arraysize)
 
- Fetches the next set of rows of a query result, returning a list. An empty
- list is returned when no more rows are available.
+ Fetch the next set of rows of a query result as a :class:`list`.
+ Return an empty list if no more rows are available.
 
  The number of rows to fetch per call is specified by the *size* parameter.
- If it is not given, the cursor's arraysize determines the number of rows
- to be fetched. The method should try to fetch as many rows as indicated by
- the size parameter. If this is not possible due to the specified number of
- rows not being available, fewer rows may be returned.
+ If *size* is not given, :attr:`arraysize` determines the number of rows
+ to be fetched.
+ If fewer than *size* rows are available,
+ as many rows as are available are returned.
 
  Note there are performance considerations involved with the *size* parameter.
  For optimal performance, it is usually best to use the arraysize attribute.
@@ -1035,9 +1036,10 @@ Cursor Objects
 
  .. method:: fetchall()
 
- Fetches all (remaining) rows of a query result, returning a list. Note that
- the cursor's arraysize attribute can affect the performance of this operation.
- An empty list is returned when no rows are available.
+ Fetch all (remaining) rows of a query result as a :class:`list`.
+ Return an empty list if no rows are available.
+ Note that the :attr:`arraysize` attribute can affect the performance of
+ this operation.
 
  .. method:: close()
 
@@ -1064,7 +1066,7 @@ Cursor Objects
 
  .. attribute:: lastrowid
 
- This read-only attribute provides the row id of the last inserted row. It
+ Read-only attribute that provides the row id of the last inserted row. It
  is only updated after successful ``INSERT`` or ``REPLACE`` statements
  using the :meth:`execute` method. For other statements, after
  :meth:`executemany` or :meth:`executescript`, or if the insertion failed,
@@ -1084,16 +1086,16 @@ Cursor Objects
 
  .. attribute:: description
 
- This read-only attribute provides the column names of the last query. To
+ Read-only attribute that provides the column names of the last query. To
  remain compatible with the Python DB API, it returns a 7-tuple for each
  column where the last six items of each tuple are :const:`None`.
 
  It is set for ``SELECT`` statements without any matching rows as well.
 
  .. attribute:: connection
 
- This read-only attribute provides the SQLite database :class:`Connection`
- used by the :class:`Cursor` object. A :class:`Cursor` object created by
+ Read-only attribute that provides the SQLite database :class:`Connection`
+ belonging to the cursor. A :class:`Cursor` object created by
  calling :meth:`con.cursor() <Connection.cursor>` will have a
  :attr:`connection` attribute that refers to *con*::
 
@@ -1121,7 +1123,8 @@ Row Objects
 
  .. method:: keys
 
- This method returns a list of column names. Immediately after a query,
+ Return a :class:`list` of column names as :class:`strings <str>`.
+ Immediately after a query,
  it is the first member of each tuple in :attr:`Cursor.description`.
 
  .. versionchanged:: 3.5