Fix typos in documentation and comments

vadmium · vadmium · commit cc71a795df49 · 2016-04-05T06:19:42.000Z
diff --git a/Doc/library/dis.rst b/Doc/library/dis.rst
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ the more significant byte last.
 
    Implements assignment with a starred target: Unpacks an iterable in TOS into
    individual values, where the total number of values can be smaller than the
-   number of items in the iterable: one the new values will be a list of all
+   number of items in the iterable: one of the new values will be a list of all
    leftover items.
 
    The low byte of *counts* is the number of values before the list value, the
diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -2052,7 +2052,7 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyUnicode_Format(
 /* Checks whether element is contained in container and return 1/0
    accordingly.
 
-   element has to coerce to an one element Unicode string. -1 is
+   element has to coerce to a one element Unicode string. -1 is
    returned in case of an error. */
 
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyUnicode_Contains(
diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ def getresponse(self):
 
         If the HTTPConnection is in the correct state, returns an
         instance of HTTPResponse or of whatever object is returned by
-        class the response_class variable.
+        the response_class variable.
 
         If a request has not been sent or if a previous response has
         not be handled, ResponseNotReady is raised.  If the HTTP
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ class TestOptionalsNargsDefault(ParserTestCase):
 
 
 class TestOptionalsNargs1(ParserTestCase):
-    """Tests specifying the 1 arg for an Optional"""
+    """Tests specifying 1 arg for an Optional"""
 
     argument_signatures = [Sig('-x', nargs=1)]
     failures = ['a', '-x']
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ class TestOptionalsNargs1(ParserTestCase):
 
 
 class TestOptionalsNargs3(ParserTestCase):
-    """Tests specifying the 3 args for an Optional"""
+    """Tests specifying 3 args for an Optional"""
 
     argument_signatures = [Sig('-x', nargs=3)]
     failures = ['a', '-x', '-x a', '-x a b', 'a -x', 'a -x b']
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ class TestOptionalsNargsOptional(ParserTestCase):
 
 
 class TestOptionalsNargsZeroOrMore(ParserTestCase):
-    """Tests specifying an args for an Optional that accepts zero or more"""
+    """Tests specifying args for an Optional that accepts zero or more"""
 
     argument_signatures = [
         Sig('-x', nargs='*'),
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ class TestOptionalsNargsZeroOrMore(ParserTestCase):
 
 
 class TestOptionalsNargsOneOrMore(ParserTestCase):
-    """Tests specifying an args for an Optional that accepts one or more"""
+    """Tests specifying args for an Optional that accepts one or more"""
 
     argument_signatures = [
         Sig('-x', nargs='+'),
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ class TestPrefixCharacterOnlyArguments(ParserTestCase):
 
 
 class TestNargsZeroOrMore(ParserTestCase):
-    """Tests specifying an args for an Optional that accepts zero or more"""
+    """Tests specifying args for an Optional that accepts zero or more"""
 
     argument_signatures = [Sig('-x', nargs='*'), Sig('y', nargs='*')]
     failures = []
diff --git a/Lib/warnings.py b/Lib/warnings.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, line=None):
             line = linecache.getline(filename, lineno)
         except Exception:
             # When a warning is logged during Python shutdown, linecache
-            # and the improt machinery don't work anymore
+            # and the import machinery don't work anymore
             line = None
     if line:
         line = line.strip()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ Library
 Build
 -----
 
-- Issue #23817: FreeBSD now uses "1.0" the the SOVERSION as other operating
+- Issue #23817: FreeBSD now uses "1.0" in the SOVERSION as other operating
   systems, instead of just "1".
 
 - Issue #23501: Argument Clinic now generates code into separate files by default.
@@ -6826,7 +6826,7 @@ Library
   Thomas Barlow.
 
 - Issue #17358: Modules loaded by imp.load_source() and load_compiled() (and by
-  extention load_module()) now have a better chance of working when reloaded.
+  extension load_module()) now have a better chance of working when reloaded.
 
 - Issue #17804: New function ``struct.iter_unpack`` allows for streaming
   struct unpacking.
@@ -7509,7 +7509,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions
   in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor.
 
-- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
+- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one of the lists changes
   size while iterated on.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 - Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ profile the interpreter execution. Note also that any output, both stdout
 and stderr, that may appear at this step is supressed.
 
 Finally, the last step is to rebuild the interpreter, using the information
-collected in the previous one. The end result will be a the Python binary
+collected in the previous one. The end result will be a Python binary
 that is optimized and suitable for distribution or production installation.
 
 
