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[3.13] Minor improvements to the programming FAQ (GH-127261) (#131964) 

Minor improvements to the programming FAQ (GH-127261)
(cherry picked from commit 23a658b9af)

Co-authored-by: Rafael Fontenelle <rffontenelle@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ There are various techniques.
f()
Is there an equivalent to Perl's chomp() for removing trailing newlines from strings?
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Is there an equivalent to Perl's ``chomp()`` for removing trailing newlines from strings?
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You can use ``S.rstrip("\r\n")`` to remove all occurrences of any line
terminator from the end of the string ``S`` without removing other trailing
@ -1005,8 +1005,8 @@ Since this is typically only desired when reading text one line at a time, using
``S.rstrip()`` this way works well.
Is there a scanf() or sscanf() equivalent?
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Is there a ``scanf()`` or ``sscanf()`` equivalent?
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Not as such.
@ -1020,8 +1020,8 @@ For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions are more powerful
than C's ``sscanf`` and better suited for the task.
What does 'UnicodeDecodeError' or 'UnicodeEncodeError' error mean?
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What does ``UnicodeDecodeError`` or ``UnicodeEncodeError`` error mean?
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See the :ref:`unicode-howto`.
@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ A raw string ending with an odd number of backslashes will escape the string's q
>>> r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
File "<stdin>", line 1
r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
^
^
SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)
There are several workarounds for this. One is to use regular strings and double