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
or edited some other way to fix the grammar.
diff --git a/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest b/Lib/test/decimaltestdata/fma.decTest
index b0a81ca..0b188fa 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
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
diff --git a/Lib/test/pystone.py b/Lib/test/pystone.py
index a41f1e5..59dd99b 100755
--- a/Lib/test/pystone.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pystone.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
Under Python 3 version 1.1 would use the normal division
operator, resulting in some of the operations mistakenly
yielding floats. Version 1.2 instead uses floor division
- making the benchmark a integer benchmark again.
+ making the benchmark an integer benchmark again.
"""
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index 01ca2f8..cdf86e7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
# 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:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd.py
index 0c31454..dd8981f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
5 12 19
6 13
- This is a interactive test, put some commands in the cmdqueue attribute
+ This is an interactive test, put some commands in the cmdqueue attribute
and let it execute
This test includes the preloop(), postloop(), default(), emptyline(),
parseline(), do_help() functions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index a1079a1..8fe21fb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
self.assertEqual(r.read(), "")
self.assertEqual(r.bytebuffer, b"")
- # do the check again, this time using a incremental decoder
+ # do the check again, this time using an incremental decoder
d = codecs.getincrementaldecoder(self.encoding)()
result = ""
for (c, partialresult) in zip(input.encode(self.encoding), partialresults):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index 61e23fc..e4541fb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -3037,7 +3037,7 @@
# issue 1690608. email.utils.formataddr() should be rfc2047 aware.
name = "H\u00e4ns W\u00fcrst"
addr = 'person@dom.ain'
- # A object without a header_encode method:
+ # An object without a header_encode method:
bad_charset = object()
self.assertRaises(AttributeError, utils.formataddr, (name, addr),
bad_charset)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
index bfb5699..95e3f04 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@
# test a /24 is summarized properly
self.assertEqual(list(summarize(ip1, ip2))[0],
ipaddress.ip_network('1.1.1.0/24'))
- # test an IPv4 range that isn't on a network byte boundary
+ # test an IPv4 range that isn't on a network byte boundary
ip2 = ipaddress.ip_address('1.1.1.8')
self.assertEqual(list(summarize(ip1, ip2)),
[ipaddress.ip_network('1.1.1.0/29'),
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@
ip1 = ipaddress.ip_address('1::')
ip2 = ipaddress.ip_address('1:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff')
- # test a IPv6 is sumamrized properly
+ # test an IPv6 is summarized properly
self.assertEqual(list(summarize(ip1, ip2))[0],
ipaddress.ip_network('1::/16'))
# test an IPv6 range that isn't on a network byte boundary
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 54dd9da2..1f7e49c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@
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()')
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 16236ef..e100039 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@
result = urllib.request.urlretrieve("file:%s" % support.TESTFN)
self.assertEqual(result[0], support.TESTFN)
self.assertIsInstance(result[1], email.message.Message,
- "did not get a email.message.Message instance "
+ "did not get an email.message.Message instance "
"as second returned value")
def test_copy(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
index 212cf34..4313c1d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@
class WeakMethodTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def _subclass(self):
- """Return a Object subclass overriding `some_method`."""
+ """Return an Object subclass overriding `some_method`."""
class C(Object):
def some_method(self):
return 6