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r69846 | mark.dickinson | 2009-02-21 21:27:01 +0100 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #5341: Fix a variety of spelling errors.
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/webservers.rst b/Doc/howto/webservers.rst
index 62c9124..4613c76 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/webservers.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/webservers.rst
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
user. Typically this component is represented by the templates.
* The *controller*. This is the layer between the user and the model. The
controller reacts on user actions (like opening some specific URL) and tells
- the model to modify the data if neccessary.
+ the model to modify the data if necessary.
While one might think that MVC is a complex design pattern, in fact it is not.
It is used in Python because it has turned out to be useful for creating clean,
@@ -435,9 +435,9 @@
.. note::
While not all Python frameworks explicitly support MVC, it is often trivial
- to create a web site which uses the MVC pattern by seperating the data logic
+ to create a web site which uses the MVC pattern by separating the data logic
(the model) from the user interaction logic (the controller) and the
- templates (the view). That's why it is important not to write unneccessary
+ templates (the view). That's why it is important not to write unnecessary
Python code in the templates -- it is against MVC and creates more chaos.
.. seealso::
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
-----------------------
There is an incredible number of frameworks, so there is no way to describe them
-all. It is not even neccessary, as most of these frameworks are nothing special
+all. It is not even necessary, as most of these frameworks are nothing special
and everything that can be done with these can also be done with one of the
popular ones.
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
Another framework that's already been mentioned is `Pylons`_. Pylons is much
like TurboGears with ab even stronger emphasis on flexibility, which is bought
at the cost of being more difficult to use. Nearly every component can be
-exchanged, which makes it neccessary to use the documentation of every single
+exchanged, which makes it necessary to use the documentation of every single
component, because there are so many Pylons combinations possible that can
satisfy every requirement. Pylons builds upon `Paste
<http://pythonpaste.org/>`_, an extensive set of tools which are handy for WSGI.
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 9e870b1..cccbb26 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class :class:`IOBase`. It
defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no
-seperation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are allowed
+separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are allowed
to throw an :exc:`IOError` if they do not support a given operation.
Extending :class:`IOBase` is :class:`RawIOBase` which deals simply with the
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
is enabled. With this enabled, on input, the lines endings ``'\n'``,
``'\r'``, or ``'\r\n'`` are translated to ``'\n'`` before being returned to
the caller. Conversely, on output, ``'\n'`` is translated to the system
- default line seperator, :data:`os.linesep`. If *newline* is any other of its
+ default line separator, :data:`os.linesep`. If *newline* is any other of its
legal values, that newline becomes the newline when the file is read and it
is returned untranslated. On output, ``'\n'`` is converted to the *newline*.
diff --git a/Doc/library/pty.rst b/Doc/library/pty.rst
index ec1c75f..6579ef0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pty.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pty.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
concept: starting another process and being able to write to and read from its
controlling terminal programmatically.
-Because pseudo-terminal handling is highly platform dependant, there is code to
+Because pseudo-terminal handling is highly platform dependent, there is code to
do it only for SGI and Linux. (The Linux code is supposed to work on other
platforms, but hasn't been tested yet.)
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 48c7bcb..939126e 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@
only works if the base class is defined or imported directly in the global
scope.)
-Python has two builtin functions that work with inheritance:
+Python has two built-in functions that work with inheritance:
* Use :func:`isinstance` to check an object's type: ``isinstance(obj, int)``
will be ``True`` only if ``obj.__class__`` is :class:`int` or some class
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 047ae36..a56fd2b 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
print row[i],
print
-In real world, you should prefer builtin functions to complex flow statements.
+In real world, you should prefer built-in functions to complex flow statements.
The :func:`zip` function would do a great job for this use case::
>>> zip(*mat)
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
index 6913c46..6ff2160 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
>>> 0.1
0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625
-instead! The Python prompt uses the builtin :func:`repr` function to obtain a
+instead! The Python prompt uses the built-in :func:`repr` function to obtain a
string version of everything it displays. For floats, ``repr(float)`` rounds
the true decimal value to 17 significant digits, giving ::
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
(although some languages may not *display* the difference by default, or in all
output modes).
-Python's builtin :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and
+Python's built-in :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and
you may wish to use that instead. It's unusual for ``eval(str(x))`` to
reproduce *x*, but the output may be more pleasant to look at::
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 34d984a..b1bc522 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
This is particularly useful in combination with the new built-in :func:`vars`
function, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables.
-For a complete overview of string formating with :meth:`str.format`, see
+For a complete overview of string formatting with :meth:`str.format`, see
:ref:`formatstrings`.
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
index 8cd5d0a..c0c7da3 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@
>>> os.chdir('/server/accesslogs')
Be sure to use the ``import os`` style instead of ``from os import *``. This
-will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the builtin :func:`open` function which
+will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the built-in :func:`open` function which
operates much differently.
.. index:: builtin: help
-The builtin :func:`dir` and :func:`help` functions are useful as interactive
+The built-in :func:`dir` and :func:`help` functions are useful as interactive
aids for working with large modules like :mod:`os`::
>>> import os