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13 changes: 7 additions & 6 deletions Doc/glossary.rst
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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.

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
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Update the definition of __future__ in the glossary by replacing the confusing
word "pseudo-module" with a more accurate description.