From ad893844ead0e88bea4bfa7dd458884ea3632635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Hsu <81967953+StevenHsuYL@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:59:01 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] bpo-44693: Doc/glossary.rst

Update definition of the __future__ in the glossary.
---
 Doc/glossary.rst                                            | 6 ++++--
 .../Documentation/2021-07-25-23-04-15.bpo-44693.JuCbNq.rst  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-25-23-04-15.bpo-44693.JuCbNq.rst

diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index ff3785b2cac72d..00559fbcdb55c8 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -451,8 +451,10 @@ Glossary
       for best practices on working with annotations.
 
    __future__
-      A pseudo-module which programmers can use to enable new language features
-      which are not compatible with the current interpreter.
+      A :ref:`future statement <future>`, "from __future__ import *feature* 
+      ...", directs the compiler to compile the current module using syntax or 
+      semantics that will become standard in a future release of Python. The 
+      :mod:`__future__` module documents the possible values of *feature*.
 
       By importing the :mod:`__future__` module and evaluating its variables,
       you can see when a new feature was first added to the language and when it
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-25-23-04-15.bpo-44693.JuCbNq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-25-23-04-15.bpo-44693.JuCbNq.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..614abb412df8ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-25-23-04-15.bpo-44693.JuCbNq.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Update the definition of __future__ in the glossary by replacing the confusing
+word "pseudo-module" with a more accurate description.

From 8c11a1ab4e1a6ee0d7e49de0186f319fc911c13e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Hsu <81967953+StevenHsuYL@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:17:14 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update glossary.rst

Remove white space.
---
 Doc/glossary.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 00559fbcdb55c8..c3a2cb5a781f78 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -451,9 +451,9 @@ Glossary
       for best practices on working with annotations.
 
    __future__
-      A :ref:`future statement <future>`, "from __future__ import *feature* 
-      ...", directs the compiler to compile the current module using syntax or 
-      semantics that will become standard in a future release of Python. The 
+      A :ref:`future statement <future>`, "from __future__ import *feature*
+      ...", directs the compiler to compile the current module using syntax or
+      semantics that will become standard in a future release of Python. The
       :mod:`__future__` module documents the possible values of *feature*.
 
       By importing the :mod:`__future__` module and evaluating its variables,

From d93b502f033cfc189546dad1acc7d71ae931d43a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:11:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Revisions

---
 Doc/glossary.rst | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index c3a2cb5a781f78..1f14946fa13427 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -451,14 +451,13 @@ Glossary
       for best practices on working with annotations.
 
    __future__
-      A :ref:`future statement <future>`, "from __future__ import *feature*
-      ...", directs the compiler to compile the current module using syntax or
-      semantics that will become standard in a future release of Python. The
-      :mod:`__future__` module documents the possible values of *feature*.
-
-      By importing the :mod:`__future__` module and evaluating its variables,
-      you can see when a new feature was first added to the language and when it
-      becomes the default::
+      A :ref:`future statement <future>`, ``from __future__ import <feature>``,
+      directs the compiler to compile the current module using syntax or
+      semantics that will become standard in a future release of Python.
+      The :mod:`__future__` module documents the possible values of
+      *feature*.  By importing this module and evaluating its variables,
+      you can see when a new feature was first added to the language and
+      when it will (or did) become the default::
 
          >>> import __future__
          >>> __future__.division