Fix typos

python · terryjreedy · Jun 13, 2021 · Jun 12, 2021 · Jun 12, 2021 · Jun 12, 2021
commit 4a5563976672fbe082235ee9effb70fa5fbf1a4d
diff --git a/Lib/_aix_support.py b/Lib/_aix_support.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def aix_platform():
     # type: () -> str
     """
     AIX filesets are identified by four decimal values: V.R.M.F.
-    V (version) and R (release) can be retreived using ``uname``
+    V (version) and R (release) can be retrieved using ``uname``
     Since 2007, starting with AIX 5.3 TL7, the M value has been
     included with the fileset bos.rte and represents the Technology
     Level (TL) of AIX. The F (Fix) value also increases, but is not

@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ def visit_UnaryOp(self, node):
         operator_precedence = self.unop_precedence[operator]
         with self.require_parens(operator_precedence, node):
             self.write(operator)
-            # factor prefixes (+, -, ~) shouldn't be seperated
+            # factor prefixes (+, -, ~) shouldn't be separated
             # from the value they belong, (e.g: +1 instead of + 1)
             if operator_precedence is not _Precedence.FACTOR:
                 self.write(" ")

@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def resume_reading(self):
         length = self._pending_data_length
         self._pending_data_length = -1
         if length > -1:
-            # Call the protocol methode after calling _loop_reading(),
+            # Call the protocol method after calling _loop_reading(),
             # since the protocol can decide to pause reading again.
             self._loop.call_soon(self._data_received, self._data[:length], length)
 

@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ async def __aexit__(self, typ, value, traceback):
                 # was passed to throw() and later wrapped into a RuntimeError
                 # (see PEP 479 for sync generators; async generators also
                 # have this behavior). But do this only if the exception wrapped
-                # by the RuntimeError is actully Stop(Async)Iteration (see
+                # by the RuntimeError is actually Stop(Async)Iteration (see
                 # issue29692).
                 if isinstance(value, (StopIteration, StopAsyncIteration)):
                     if exc.__cause__ is value:

@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ def _process_class(cls, init, repr, eq, order, unsafe_hash, frozen,
 
 
 # _dataclass_getstate and _dataclass_setstate are needed for pickling frozen
-# classes with slots.  These could be slighly more performant if we generated
+# classes with slots.  These could be slightly more performance if we generated
 # the code instead of iterating over fields.  But that can be a project for
 # another day, if performance becomes an issue.
 def _dataclass_getstate(self):

diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ def send_head(self):
         # The test for this was added in test_httpserver.py
         # However, some OS platforms accept a trailingSlash as a filename
         # See discussion on python-dev and Issue34711 regarding
-        # parseing and rejection of filenames with a trailing slash
+        # parsing and rejection of filenames with a trailing slash
         if path.endswith("/"):
             self.send_error(HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND, "File not found")
             return None

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 default values.  For 'highlight' and 'keys', user sections augment the
 default sections (and must, therefore, have distinct names).
 
-Throughout this module there is an emphasis on returning useable defaults
+Throughout this module there is an emphasis on returning usable defaults
 when a problem occurs in returning a requested configuration value back to
 idle. This is to allow IDLE to continue to function in spite of errors in
 the retrieval of config information. When a default is returned instead of

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def __init__(self, text):
         text.bind("<<history-next>>", self.history_next)
 
     def history_next(self, event):
-        "Fetch later statement; start with ealiest if cyclic."
+        "Fetch later statement; start with earliest if cyclic."
         self.fetch(reverse=False)
         return "break"
 

@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ def __hash__(self):
         return hash(self.name) ^ hash(self.path)
 
     def create_module(self, spec):
-        """Create an unitialized extension module"""
+        """Create an uninitialized extension module"""
         module = _bootstrap._call_with_frames_removed(
             _imp.create_dynamic, spec)
         _bootstrap._verbose_message('extension module {!r} loaded from {!r}',

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     If called from the command line, it prints the platform
     information concatenated as single string to stdout. The output
-    format is useable as part of a filename.
+    format is usable as part of a filename.
 
 """
 #    This module is maintained by Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def libc_ver(executable=None, lib='', version='', chunksize=16384):
 
         Note that the function has intimate knowledge of how different
         libc versions add symbols to the executable and thus is probably
-        only useable for executables compiled using gcc.
+        only usable for executables compiled using gcc.
 
         The file is read and scanned in chunks of chunksize bytes.
 

diff --git a/Lib/plistlib.py b/Lib/plistlib.py
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ def parse(self, fileobj):
         return self.root
 
     def handle_entity_decl(self, entity_name, is_parameter_entity, value, base, system_id, public_id, notation_name):
-        # Reject plist files with entity declarations to avoid XML vulnerabilies in expat.
-        # Regular plist files don't contain those declerations, and Apple's plutil tool does not
+        # Reject plist files with entity declarations to avoid XML vulnerabilities in expat.
+        # Regular plist files don't contain those decelerations, and Apple's plutil tool does not
         # accept them either.
         raise InvalidFileException("XML entity declarations are not supported in plist files")
 

diff --git a/Lib/pstats.py b/Lib/pstats.py
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ def print_line(self, func):  # hack: should print percentages
 class TupleComp:
     """This class provides a generic function for comparing any two tuples.
     Each instance records a list of tuple-indices (from most significant
-    to least significant), and sort direction (ascending or decending) for
+    to least significant), and sort direction (ascending or descending) for
     each tuple-index.  The compare functions can then be used as the function
     argument to the system sort() function when a list of tuples need to be
     sorted in the instances order."""

diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 socketpair() -- create a pair of new socket objects [*]
 fromfd() -- create a socket object from an open file descriptor [*]
 send_fds() -- Send file descriptor to the socket.
-recv_fds() -- Recieve file descriptors from the socket.
+recv_fds() -- Receive file descriptors from the socket.
 fromshare() -- create a socket object from data received from socket.share() [*]
 gethostname() -- return the current hostname
 gethostbyname() -- map a hostname to its IP number

@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ def _ipaddress_match(cert_ipaddress, host_ip):
     (section 1.7.2 - "Out of Scope").
     """
     # OpenSSL may add a trailing newline to a subjectAltName's IP address,
-    # commonly woth IPv6 addresses. Strip off trailing \n.
+    # commonly worth IPv6 addresses. Strip off trailing \n.
     ip = _inet_paton(cert_ipaddress.rstrip())
     return ip == host_ip
 

@@ -2086,7 +2086,7 @@ def send_signal(self, sig):
             try:
                 os.kill(self.pid, sig)
             except ProcessLookupError:
-                # Supress the race condition error; bpo-40550.
+                # Suppress the race condition error; bpo-40550.
                 pass
 
         def terminate(self):

diff --git a/Lib/symtable.py b/Lib/symtable.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
     def get_type(self):
         """Return the type of the symbol table.
 
-        The values retuned are 'class', 'module' and
+        The values returned are 'class', 'module' and
         'function'.
         """
         if self._table.type == _symtable.TYPE_MODULE:
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def is_parameter(self):
         return bool(self.__flags & DEF_PARAM)
 
     def is_global(self):
-        """Return *True* if the sysmbol is global.
+        """Return *True* if the symbol is global.
         """
         return bool(self.__scope in (GLOBAL_IMPLICIT, GLOBAL_EXPLICIT)
                     or (self.__module_scope and self.__flags & DEF_BOUND))

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -5696,7 +5696,7 @@ class C(A):
 
     def test_incomplete_extend(self):
         """
-        Extending an unitialized type with type->tp_mro == NULL must
+        Extending an uninitialized type with type->tp_mro == NULL must
         throw a reasonable TypeError exception, instead of failing
         with PyErr_BadInternalCall.
         """

diff --git a/Lib/turtle.py b/Lib/turtle.py
@@ -3826,7 +3826,7 @@ def write_docstringdict(filename="turtle_docstringdict"):
                 default value is turtle_docstringdict
 
     Has to be called explicitly, (not used by the turtle-graphics classes)
-    The docstring dictionary will be written to the Python script <filname>.py
+    The docstring dictionary will be written to the Python script <filename>.py
     It is intended to serve as a template for translation of the docstrings
     into different languages.
     """

diff --git a/Lib/types.py b/Lib/types.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ class DynamicClassAttribute:
     attributes on the class with the same name.  (Enum used this between Python
     versions 3.4 - 3.9 .)
 
-    Subclass from this to use a different method of accessing virtual atributes
+    Subclass from this to use a different method of accessing virtual attributes
     and still be treated properly by the inspect module. (Enum uses this since
     Python 3.10 .)
 

@@ -2205,7 +2205,7 @@ async def _execute_mock_call(self, /, *args, **kwargs):
                 try:
                     result = next(effect)
                 except StopIteration:
-                    # It is impossible to propogate a StopIteration
+                    # It is impossible to propagate a StopIteration
                     # through coroutines because of PEP 479
                     raise StopAsyncIteration
                 if _is_exception(result):

@@ -1183,12 +1183,12 @@ static int
 verify_end_of_number(struct tok_state *tok, int c, const char *kind)
 {
     /* Emit a deprecation warning only if the numeric literal is immediately
-     * followed by one of keywords which can occurr after a numeric literal
+     * followed by one of keywords which can occur after a numeric literal
      * in valid code: "and", "else", "for", "if", "in", "is" and "or".
      * It allows to gradually deprecate existing valid code without adding
      * warning before error in most cases of invalid numeric literal (which
-     * would be confusiong and break existing tests).
-     * Raise a syntax error with slighly better message than plain
+     * would be confusing and break existing tests).
+     * Raise a syntax error with slightly better message than plain
      * "invalid syntax" if the numeric literal is immediately followed by
      * other keyword or identifier.
      */

@@ -128,21 +128,21 @@ VERSION=PYTHON_VERSION
 AC_SUBST(SOVERSION)
 SOVERSION=1.0
 
-# The later defininition of _XOPEN_SOURCE disables certain features
+# The later definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE disables certain features
 # on Linux, so we need _GNU_SOURCE to re-enable them (makedev, tm_zone).
 AC_DEFINE(_GNU_SOURCE, 1, [Define on Linux to activate all library features])
 
-# The later defininition of _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE disables
+# The later definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE disables
 # certain features on NetBSD, so we need _NETBSD_SOURCE to re-enable
 # them.
 AC_DEFINE(_NETBSD_SOURCE, 1, [Define on NetBSD to activate all library features])
 
-# The later defininition of _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE disables
+# The later definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE disables
 # certain features on FreeBSD, so we need __BSD_VISIBLE to re-enable
 # them.
 AC_DEFINE(__BSD_VISIBLE, 1, [Define on FreeBSD to activate all library features])
 
-# The later defininition of _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE disables
+# The later definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE disables
 # certain features on Mac OS X, so we need _DARWIN_C_SOURCE to re-enable
 # them.
 AC_DEFINE(_DARWIN_C_SOURCE, 1, [Define on Darwin to activate all library features])