diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 54dc4b9..c76fa56 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@
    >>> a = array.array('c', s)
    >>> print a
    array('c', 'Hello, world')
-   >>> a[0] = 'y' ; print a
+   >>> a[0] = 'y'; print a
    array('c', 'yello, world')
    >>> a.tostring()
    'yello, world'
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 7cc6033..0379bac 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
       ...
       Py_Initialize();  // Initialize Python.
       initmyAppc();  // Initialize (import) the helper class.
-      PyRun_SimpleString("import myApp") ;  // Import the shadow class.
+      PyRun_SimpleString("import myApp");  // Import the shadow class.
 
 5. There are two problems with Python's C API which will become apparent if you
    use a compiler other than MSVC, the compiler used to build pythonNN.dll.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst b/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
index e5d75a6..50c84e1 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
@@ -834,4 +834,3 @@
 
 Note that the order of items might be different according to the version of
 Python used.
-
diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
index e32c560..d13f174 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .. sidebar:: Related Articles
 
     You may also find useful the following article on fetching web resources
-    with Python :
+    with Python:
 
     * `Basic Authentication <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml>`_
 
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
 
 When authentication is required, the server sends a header (as well as the 401
 error code) requesting authentication.  This specifies the authentication scheme
-and a 'realm'. The header looks like : ``WWW-Authenticate: SCHEME
+and a 'realm'. The header looks like: ``WWW-Authenticate: SCHEME
 realm="REALM"``.
 
 e.g. ::
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
 setting is detected.  Normally that's a good thing, but there are occasions
 when it may not be helpful [#]_. One way to do this is to setup our own
 ``ProxyHandler``, with no proxies defined. This is done using similar steps to
-setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler : ::
+setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler: ::
 
     >>> proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
     >>> opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index e09c53e..2c36e64 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 Fundamental data types
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-:mod:`ctypes` defines a number of primitive C compatible data types :
+:mod:`ctypes` defines a number of primitive C compatible data types:
 
 +----------------------+------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
 | ctypes type          | C type                                   | Python type                |
diff --git a/Doc/library/rexec.rst b/Doc/library/rexec.rst
index 6b6923c..12f6faa 100644
--- a/Doc/library/rexec.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/rexec.rst
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
            if mode in ('r', 'rb'):
                pass
            elif mode in ('w', 'wb', 'a', 'ab'):
-               # check filename : must begin with /tmp/
+               # check filename: must begin with /tmp/
                if file[:5]!='/tmp/':
                    raise IOError("can't write outside /tmp")
                elif (string.find(file, '/../') >= 0 or
diff --git a/Doc/library/simplexmlrpcserver.rst b/Doc/library/simplexmlrpcserver.rst
index 62139c4..1dc6817 100644
--- a/Doc/library/simplexmlrpcserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/simplexmlrpcserver.rst
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
 Example::
 
    class MyFuncs:
-       def div(self, x, y) : return x // y
+       def div(self, x, y): return x // y
 
 
    handler = CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler()
diff --git a/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst b/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
index ff73796..a3019f5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 .. method:: Telnet.set_option_negotiation_callback(callback)
 
    Each time a telnet option is read on the input flow, this *callback* (if set) is
-   called with the following parameters : callback(telnet socket, command
+   called with the following parameters: callback(telnet socket, command
    (DO/DONT/WILL/WONT), option).  No other action is done afterwards by telnetlib.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
index 3d40c77..f2a419d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
 Example::
 
    >>> print fred.config()
-   {'relief' : ('relief', 'relief', 'Relief', 'raised', 'groove')}
+   {'relief': ('relief', 'relief', 'Relief', 'raised', 'groove')}
 
 Of course, the dictionary printed will include all the options available and
 their values.  This is meant only as an example.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
index e9677ac..fa6c124 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@
      ['A', 'b', 'c', 'D']
 
   Finally, the *reverse* parameter takes a Boolean value.  If the value is true,
-  the list will be sorted into reverse order. Instead of ``L.sort() ;
+  the list will be sorted into reverse order. Instead of ``L.sort();
   L.reverse()``, you can now write ``L.sort(reverse=True)``.
 
   The results of sorting are now guaranteed to be stable.  This means that two
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
index e059cd5..c420a19 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
 :mod:`pkg.string` and look for the standard module; generally you had to look at
 the contents of ``sys.modules``, which is slightly unclean.    Holger Krekel's
 :mod:`py.std` package provides a tidier way to perform imports from the standard
-library, ``import py ; py.std.string.join()``, but that package isn't available
+library, ``import py; py.std.string.join()``, but that package isn't available
 on all Python installations.
 
 Reading code which relies on relative imports is also less clear, because a
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 28932a6..cefdcaf 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@
     >>> dq=deque(maxlen=3)
     >>> dq
     deque([], maxlen=3)
-    >>> dq.append(1) ; dq.append(2) ; dq.append(3)
+    >>> dq.append(1); dq.append(2); dq.append(3)
     >>> dq
     deque([1, 2, 3], maxlen=3)
     >>> dq.append(4)
@@ -2779,12 +2779,12 @@
 types. The following example encodes and decodes a dictionary::
 
        >>> import json
-       >>> data = {"spam" : "foo", "parrot" : 42}
+       >>> data = {"spam": "foo", "parrot": 42}
        >>> in_json = json.dumps(data) # Encode the data
        >>> in_json
        '{"parrot": 42, "spam": "foo"}'
        >>> json.loads(in_json) # Decode into a Python object
-       {"spam" : "foo", "parrot" : 42}
+       {"spam": "foo", "parrot": 42}
 
 It's also possible to write your own decoders and encoders to support
 more types. Pretty-printing of the JSON strings is also supported.