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#9911: doc copyedits.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/2to3.rst b/Doc/library/2to3.rst
index f3be8fa..de31251 100644
--- a/Doc/library/2to3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/2to3.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
Since some print statements can be parsed as function calls or statements, 2to3
cannot always read files containing the print function. When 2to3 detects the
presence of the ``from __future__ import print_function`` compiler directive, it
-modifies its internal grammar to interpert :func:`print` as a function. This
+modifies its internal grammar to interpret :func:`print` as a function. This
change can also be enabled manually with the :option:`-p` flag. Use
:option:`-p` to run fixers on code that already has had its print statements
converted.
diff --git a/Doc/library/bisect.rst b/Doc/library/bisect.rst
index 8bf0949..eb23159 100644
--- a/Doc/library/bisect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/bisect.rst
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
Unlike the :func:`sorted` function, it does not make sense for the :func:`bisect`
functions to have *key* or *reversed* arguments because that would lead to an
-inefficent design (successive calls to bisect functions would not "remember"
+inefficient design (successive calls to bisect functions would not "remember"
all of the previous key lookups).
Instead, it is better to search a list of precomputed keys to find the index
diff --git a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst
index 0151e94..472ddcf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
* ``version``
* ``httponly``
- The attribute :attr:`httponly` specifies that the cookie is only transfered
+ The attribute :attr:`httponly` specifies that the cookie is only transferred
in HTTP requests, and is not accessible through JavaScript. This is intended
to mitigate some forms of cross-site scripting.
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 2b8e92c..c977eb8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -2572,7 +2572,7 @@
.. attribute:: exc_info
Exception tuple (à la `sys.exc_info`) or `None` if no exception
- information is availble.
+ information is available.
.. attribute:: func
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 27b4c90..e23b926 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
Otherwise a daemonic process would leave its children orphaned if it gets
terminated when its parent process exits. Additionally, these are **not**
Unix daemons or services, they are normal processes that will be
- terminated (and not joined) if non-dameonic processes have exited.
+ terminated (and not joined) if non-daemonic processes have exited.
In addition to the :class:`Threading.Thread` API, :class:`Process` objects
also support the following attributes and methods:
diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
index 8157a52..3358053 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
that meets this interface.
Optional keyword arguments are *fix_imports*, *encoding* and *errors*,
- which are used to control compatiblity support for pickle stream generated
+ which are used to control compatibility support for pickle stream generated
by Python 2.x. If *fix_imports* is True, pickle will try to map the old
Python 2.x names to the new names used in Python 3.x. The *encoding* and
*errors* tell pickle how to decode 8-bit string instances pickled by Python
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
ignored.
Optional keyword arguments are *fix_imports*, *encoding* and *errors*,
- which are used to control compatiblity support for pickle stream generated
+ which are used to control compatibility support for pickle stream generated
by Python 2.x. If *fix_imports* is True, pickle will try to map the old
Python 2.x names to the new names used in Python 3.x. The *encoding* and
*errors* tell pickle how to decode 8-bit string instances pickled by Python
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
that meets this interface.
Optional keyword arguments are *fix_imports*, *encoding* and *errors*,
- which are used to control compatiblity support for pickle stream generated
+ which are used to control compatibility support for pickle stream generated
by Python 2.x. If *fix_imports* is True, pickle will try to map the old
Python 2.x names to the new names used in Python 3.x. The *encoding* and
*errors* tell pickle how to decode 8-bit string instances pickled by Python
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
.. index:: single: __getnewargs__() (copy protocol)
-Classes can alter the default behaviour by providing one or severals special
+Classes can alter the default behaviour by providing one or several special
methods. In protocol 2 and newer, classes that implements the
:meth:`__getnewargs__` method can dictate the values passed to the
:meth:`__new__` method upon unpickling. This is often needed for classes
diff --git a/Doc/library/profile.rst b/Doc/library/profile.rst
index 5888b95..e66ceaf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/profile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/profile.rst
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
integers, you can also invoke the class constructor with a second argument
specifying the real duration of one unit of time. For example, if
:func:`your_integer_time_func` returns times measured in thousands of seconds,
- you would constuct the :class:`Profile` instance as follows::
+ you would construct the :class:`Profile` instance as follows::
pr = profile.Profile(your_integer_time_func, 0.001)
diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst
index abb196d..e99d317 100644
--- a/Doc/library/readline.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@
interactive prompt and the prompts offered by the built-in :func:`input`
function.
+.. note::
+
+ On MacOS X the :mod:`readline` module can be implemented using
+ the ``libedit`` library instead of GNU readline.
+
+ The configuration file for ``libedit`` is different from that
+ of GNU readline. If you programmatically load configuration strings
+ you can check for the text "libedit" in :const:`readline.__doc__`
+ to differentiate between GNU readline and libedit.
+
The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions:
diff --git a/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst b/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
index 102a42a..6e3abde 100644
--- a/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
If a regular expression ends with a greedy match (such as ``.*``) or if more
than one expression can match the same input, the results are
- indeterministic, and may depend on the I/O timing.
+ non-deterministic, and may depend on the I/O timing.
.. method:: Telnet.set_option_negotiation_callback(callback)
diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.tix.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.tix.rst
index bbe66d8..68d8f5a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tkinter.tix.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.tix.rst
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
The `ComboBox
<http://tix.sourceforge.net/dist/current/man/html/TixCmd/tixComboBox.htm>`_
widget is similar to the combo box control in MS Windows. The user can select a
- choice by either typing in the entry subwdget or selecting from the listbox
+ choice by either typing in the entry subwidget or selecting from the listbox
subwidget.
.. Python Demo of:
diff --git a/Doc/library/turtle.rst b/Doc/library/turtle.rst
index c6ba316..711e1a1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/turtle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/turtle.rst
@@ -1957,7 +1957,7 @@
.. function:: setup(width=_CFG["width"], height=_CFG["height"], startx=_CFG["leftright"], starty=_CFG["topbottom"])
Set the size and position of the main window. Default values of arguments
- are stored in the configuration dicionary and can be changed via a
+ are stored in the configuration dictionary and can be changed via a
:file:`turtle.cfg` file.
:param width: if an integer, a size in pixels, if a float, a fraction of the
diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index 560c3f9..d88b823 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@
.. function:: skipUnless(condition, reason)
- Skip the decoratored test unless *condition* is true.
+ Skip the decorated test unless *condition* is true.
.. function:: expectedFailure
@@ -1241,8 +1241,8 @@
.. attribute:: expectedFailures
- A list contaning 2-tuples of :class:`TestCase` instances and strings
- holding formatted tracebacks. Each tuple represents a expected failures
+ A list containing 2-tuples of :class:`TestCase` instances and strings
+ holding formatted tracebacks. Each tuple represents an expected failure
of the test case.
.. attribute:: unexpectedSuccesses
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 4fb2936..3e1c628 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@
:rfc:`3986` - Uniform Resource Identifiers
This is the current standard (STD66). Any changes to urlparse module
should conform to this. Certain deviations could be observed, which are
- mostly due backward compatiblity purposes and for certain to de-facto
+ mostly for backward compatibility purposes and for certain de-facto
parsing requirements as commonly observed in major browsers.
:rfc:`2396` - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
diff --git a/Doc/library/winreg.rst b/Doc/library/winreg.rst
index bd7e8d4..68f7e91 100644
--- a/Doc/library/winreg.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/winreg.rst
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
64-bit Specific
***************
-For more information, see `Accesing an Alternate Registry View
+For more information, see `Accessing an Alternate Registry View
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384129(v=VS.85).aspx>`__.
.. data:: KEY_WOW64_64KEY