Issue #23804: Merge spelling and NEWS fixes from 3.5

vadmium · vadmium · commit 702f4f5d6fdb · 2016-07-11T12:54:44.000Z
diff --git a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ XMLParser Objects
 
 The following attributes contain values relating to the most recent error
 encountered by an :class:`xmlparser` object, and will only have correct values
-once a call to :meth:`Parse` or :meth:`ParseFile` has raised a
+once a call to :meth:`Parse` or :meth:`ParseFile` has raised an
 :exc:`xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError` exception.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ the returned bytes object to string once it determines or guesses
 the appropriate encoding.
 
 The following W3C document, https://www.w3.org/International/O-charset\ , lists
-the various ways in which a (X)HTML or a XML document could have specified its
+the various ways in which an (X)HTML or an XML document could have specified its
 encoding information.
 
 As the python.org website uses *utf-8* encoding as specified in its meta tag, we
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ document: the one that holds all others.  Here is an example program::
 
 When you are finished with a DOM tree, you may optionally call the
 :meth:`unlink` method to encourage early cleanup of the now-unneeded
-objects.  :meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific
+objects.  :meth:`unlink` is an :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific
 extension to the DOM API that renders the node and its descendants are
 essentially useless.  Otherwise, Python's garbage collector will
 eventually take care of the objects in the tree.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpc.server.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpc.server.rst
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ requests sent to Python CGI scripts.
 
 .. method:: CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.handle_request(request_text=None)
 
-   Handle a XML-RPC request. If *request_text* is given, it  should be the POST
+   Handle an XML-RPC request. If *request_text* is given, it should be the POST
    data provided by the HTTP server,  otherwise the contents of stdin will be used.
 
 Example::
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def test_check_extensions_list(self):
         self.assertRaises(DistutilsSetupError, cmd.check_extensions_list, exts)
 
         # second element of each tuple in 'ext_modules'
-        # must be a ary (build info)
+        # must be a dictionary (build info)
         exts = [('foo.bar', '')]
         self.assertRaises(DistutilsSetupError, cmd.check_extensions_list, exts)
 
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.5.0?
   Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg.
   Original patch by Tal Einat.
 
-- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires a
+- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an
   editor window with a filename.  When Class Browser is requested otherwise,
   from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays
   an error box.  It now pops up an  Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ def testRepr(self):
         self.assertEqual("IPv6Interface('::1/128')",
                          repr(ipaddress.IPv6Interface('::1')))
 
-    # issue #16531: constructing IPv4Network from a (address, mask) tuple
+    # issue #16531: constructing IPv4Network from an (address, mask) tuple
     def testIPv4Tuple(self):
         # /32
         ip = ipaddress.IPv4Address('192.0.2.1')
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ def testIPv4Tuple(self):
         self.assertEqual(ipaddress.IPv4Interface((3221225985, 24)),
                          ipaddress.IPv4Interface('192.0.2.1/24'))
 
-    # issue #16531: constructing IPv6Network from a (address, mask) tuple
+    # issue #16531: constructing IPv6Network from an (address, mask) tuple
     def testIPv6Tuple(self):
         # /128
         ip = ipaddress.IPv6Address('2001:db8::')
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/mock.py b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ def _format_mock_failure_message(self, args, kwargs):
 
     def _call_matcher(self, _call):
         """
-        Given a call (or simply a (args, kwargs) tuple), return a
+        Given a call (or simply an (args, kwargs) tuple), return a
         comparison key suitable for matching with other calls.
         This is a best effort method which relies on the spec's signature,
         if available, or falls back on the arguments themselves.
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py b/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # minidom DOM and can't be used with other DOM implementations.  This
 # is due, in part, to a lack of appropriate methods in the DOM (there is
 # no way to create Entity and Notation nodes via the DOM Level 2
-# interface), and for performance.  The later is the cause of some fairly
+# interface), and for performance.  The latter is the cause of some fairly
 # cryptic code.
 #
 # Performance hacks:
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ def register_instance(self, instance, allow_dotted_names=False):
         are considered private and will not be called by
         SimpleXMLRPCServer.
 
-        If a registered function matches a XML-RPC request, then it
+        If a registered function matches an XML-RPC request, then it
         will be called instead of the registered instance.
 
         If the optional allow_dotted_names argument is true and the
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Core and Builtins
   be re-enabled using the "-X showalloccount" option.  It now outputs to stderr
   instead of stdout.
 
-- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray itearator no longer return
-  negative integer for resized bytearray.
+- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a
+  negative integer for a resized bytearray.
 
 - Issue #27007: The fromhex() class methods of bytes and bytearray subclasses
   now return an instance of corresponding subclass.
@@ -2891,7 +2891,7 @@ Library
   JoinableQueue was merged with Queue).
 
 - Issue #23908: os functions now reject paths with embedded null character
-  on Windows instead of silently truncate them.
+  on Windows instead of silently truncating them.
 
 - Issue #23728: binascii.crc_hqx() could return an integer outside of the range
   0-0xffff for empty data.
@@ -4144,6 +4144,12 @@ Library
 - Issue #20218: Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and read_bytes/
   write_bytes to pathlib.Path objects.
 
+- Issue #22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise() nor
+  os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong.
+
+- Issue #22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its
+  weakrefs.
+
 - Issue #22437: Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no longer
   limited by 100.
 
@@ -4221,7 +4227,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X.
 
 - Issue #21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null
-  character instead of truncate it.  Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
+  character instead of truncating it.  Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
 
 - Issue #13968: The glob module now supports recursive search in
   subdirectories using the "**" pattern.
@@ -5073,7 +5079,7 @@ Build
   an explicit runtime library dependency.
 
 - Issue #17861: Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates
-  Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the later gets any change.
+  Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change.
 
 - Issue #20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes
   in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.

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`@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@`
`10`	`10`	`# minidom DOM and can't be used with other DOM implementations. This`
`11`	`11`	`# is due, in part, to a lack of appropriate methods in the DOM (there is`
`12`	`12`	`# no way to create Entity and Notation nodes via the DOM Level 2`
`13`		`-# interface), and for performance. The later is the cause of some fairly`
	`13`	`+# interface), and for performance. The latter is the cause of some fairly`
`14`	`14`	`# cryptic code.`
`15`	`15`	`#`
`16`	`16`	`# Performance hacks:`