More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the

Yhg1s · Yhg1s · commit f9b526dbfd9d · 2000-07-16T19:05:38.000Z
distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.

Tip: review the patch like this:

grep "^[\!+-] " &lt;patchfile&gt;

To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref1.tex b/Doc/ref/ref1.tex
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ \chapter{Introduction\label{introduction}}
 On the other hand, if you are using
 Python and wonder what the precise rules about a particular area of
 the language are, you should definitely be able to find them here.
-If you would like to see a more formal definitition of the language,
+If you would like to see a more formal definition of the language,
 maybe you could volunteer your time --- or invent a cloning machine
 :-).
 
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ \section{The standard type hierarchy\label{types}}
 These represent finite ordered sets indexed by natural numbers.
 The built-in function \function{len()}\bifuncindex{len} returns the
 number of items of a sequence.
-When the lenth of a sequence is \var{n}, the
+When the length of a sequence is \var{n}, the
 index set contains the numbers 0, 1, \ldots, \var{n}-1.  Item
 \var{i} of sequence \var{a} is selected by \code{\var{a}[\var{i}]}.
 \obindex{sequence}
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ \section{The standard type hierarchy\label{types}}
 Mutable sequences can be changed after they are created.  The
 subscription and slicing notations can be used as the target of
 assignment and \keyword{del} (delete) statements.
-\obindex{mutable sequece}
+\obindex{mutable sequence}
 \obindex{mutable}
 \indexii{assignment}{statement}
 \index{delete}
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ \section{The standard type hierarchy\label{types}}
 the bytecode; \member{co_filename} is the filename from which the code
 was compiled; \member{co_firstlineno} is the first line number of the
 function; \member{co_lnotab} is a string encoding the mapping from
-byte code offsets to line numbers (for detais see the source code of
+byte code offsets to line numbers (for details see the source code of
 the interpreter); \member{co_stacksize} is the required stack size
 (including local variables); \member{co_flags} is an integer encoding
 a number of flags for the interpreter.
@@ -815,8 +815,8 @@ \section{The standard type hierarchy\label{types}}
 k:l]}, or \code{a[..., i:j])}.  They are also created by the built-in
 \function{slice()}\bifuncindex{slice} function.
 
-Special read-only attributes: \member{start} is the lowerbound;
-\member{stop} is the upperbound; \member{step} is the step value; each is
+Special read-only attributes: \member{start} is the lower bound;
+\member{stop} is the upper bound; \member{step} is the step value; each is
 \code{None} if omitted. These attributes can have any type.
 \withsubitem{(slice object attribute)}{
   \ttindex{start}
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ \section{The \keyword{continue} statement \label{continue}}
 \keyword{while} loop, but not nested in a function or class definition or
 \keyword{try} statement within that loop.\footnote{It may
 occur within an \keyword{except} or \keyword{else} clause.  The
-restriction on occurring in the \keyword{try} clause is implementer's
+restriction on occurring in the \keyword{try} clause is implementor's
 laziness and will eventually be lifted.}
 It continues with the next cycle of the nearest enclosing loop.
 \stindex{for}
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref7.tex b/Doc/ref/ref7.tex
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ \section{The \keyword{try} statement\label{try}}
 handler continues in the surrounding code and on the invocation stack.
 
 If the evaluation of an expression in the header of an except clause
-raises an exception, the original search for a handler is cancelled
+raises an exception, the original search for a handler is canceled
 and a search starts for the new exception in the surrounding code and
 on the call stack (it is treated as if the entire \keyword{try} statement
 raised the exception).
diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ \subsection{Unicode Strings \label{unicodeStrings}}
 Starting with Python 2.0 a new data type for storing text data is
 available to the programmer: the Unicode object. It can be used to
 store and manipulate Unicode data (see \url{http://www.unicode.org})
-and intergrates well with the existing string objects providing
+and integrates well with the existing string objects providing
 auto-conversions where necessary.
 
 Unicode has the advantage of providing one ordinal for every character
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ \subsection{Unicode Strings \label{unicodeStrings}}
 e.g. in regular expressions.
 
 Apart from these standard encodings, Python provides a whole set of
-other ways of creating Unicod strings on the basis of a known
+other ways of creating Unicode strings on the basis of a known
 encoding. 
 
 The builtin \function{unicode()}\bifuncindex{unicode} provides access
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ \subsection{Unicode Strings \label{unicodeStrings}}
 \emph{Latin-1}, \emph{ASCII}, \emph{UTF-8} and \emph{UTF-16}. The latter two
 are variable length encodings which permit to store Unicode characters
 in 8 or 16 bits. Python uses UTF-8 as default encoding. This becomes
-noticable when printing Unicode strings or writing them to files.
+noticeable when printing Unicode strings or writing them to files.
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 >>> u"���"
@@ -3019,7 +3019,7 @@ \section{Handling Exceptions \label{handling}}
 
 
 When an exception occurs, it may have an associated value, also known as
-the exceptions's \emph{argument}.
+the exception's \emph{argument}.
 The presence and type of the argument depend on the exception type.
 For exception types which have an argument, the except clause may
 specify a variable after the exception name (or list) to receive the
