commit b362f75f6e5d8fe21d0cda740f9dcdf1976091f7
author Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com> Mon Nov 02 03:37:02 2015 +0000
committer Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com> Mon Nov 02 03:37:02 2015 +0000
tree 1b7f020b0403e2378879af5c7e3cdeba27990dc2
parent 8c6849bfe6ccc0e508e23df385b4ca61c7e00236

Issue #25523: Correct "a" article to "an" article

This changes the main documentation, doc strings, source code comments, and a
couple error messages in the test suite. In some cases the word was removed
to fix the grammar.

Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest

diff --git a/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest b/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest
index a8197ef..ee2a8d4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest
+++ b/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 fmax2019 fma -9.999999  9.999999  0E+999999  -> -100.000 Inexact Rounded
 fmax2020 fma -9.999999 -9.999999  0E+999999  ->  100.000 Inexact Rounded
 
--- 1999.12.21: next one is a edge case if intermediate longs are used
+-- 1999.12.21: next one is an edge case if intermediate longs are used
 precision: 15
 fmax2059 fma 999999999999 9765625  0E+999999  -> 9.76562499999023E+18 Inexact Rounded
 precision: 30

Lib/test/decimaltestdata/multiply.decTest

diff --git a/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/multiply.decTest b/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/multiply.decTest
index 6a23d5a..e8bd77a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/multiply.decTest
+++ b/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/multiply.decTest
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 mulx019 multiply -9.999999999  9.999999999 -> -100.000 Inexact Rounded
 mulx020 multiply -9.999999999 -9.999999999 ->  100.000 Inexact Rounded
 
--- 1999.12.21: next one is a edge case if intermediate longs are used
+-- 1999.12.21: next one is an edge case if intermediate longs are used
 precision: 15
 mulx059 multiply 999999999999 9765625 -> 9.76562499999023E+18 Inexact Rounded
 precision: 30

Lib/test/test_os.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 57c7c88..fb34893 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
         except OSError as e:
             self.assertEqual(e.errno, errno.EBADF)
         else:
-            self.fail("%r didn't raise a OSError with a bad file descriptor"
+            self.fail("%r didn't raise an OSError with a bad file descriptor"
                       % f)
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, 'isatty'), 'test needs os.isatty()')

Lib/test/test_support.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 85f9965..89c5719 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
         # The exponential backoff of the timeout amounts to a total
         # of ~1 second after which the deletion is probably an error
         # anyway.
-        # Testing on a i7@4.3GHz shows that usually only 1 iteration is
+        # Testing on an i7@4.3GHz shows that usually only 1 iteration is
         # required when contention occurs.
         timeout = 0.001
         while timeout < 1.0: