fix instances of consecutive articles (closes #23221)
Patch by Karan Goel.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index 0924c9b..d5cd8e3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
"""Create all the empty directories under 'base_dir' needed to put 'files'
there.
- 'base_dir' is just the a name of a directory which doesn't necessarily
+ 'base_dir' is just the name of a directory which doesn't necessarily
exist yet; 'files' is a list of filenames to be interpreted relative to
'base_dir'. 'base_dir' + the directory portion of every file in 'files'
will be created if it doesn't already exist. 'mode', 'verbose' and
diff --git a/Lib/http/cookiejar.py b/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
index 2ddd523..7e4982f 100644
--- a/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
+++ b/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@
def lwp_cookie_str(cookie):
- """Return string representation of Cookie in an the LWP cookie file format.
+ """Return string representation of Cookie in the LWP cookie file format.
Actually, the format is extended a bit -- see module docstring.
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py b/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py
index 9afc2fa..2e47887 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
self.sys_import = None
def transform(self, node, results):
- # First, find a the sys import. We'll just hope it's global scope.
+ # First, find the sys import. We'll just hope it's global scope.
if "sys_import" in results:
if self.sys_import is None:
self.sys_import = results["sys_import"]
diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index 22d7ad5..8efd760 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
def fromshare(info):
""" fromshare(info) -> socket object
- Create a socket object from a the bytes object returned by
+ Create a socket object from the bytes object returned by
socket.share(pid).
"""
return socket(0, 0, 0, info)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
index 98ccfe4..1164f3f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@
class TestOptionalsRequired(ParserTestCase):
- """Tests the an optional action that is required"""
+ """Tests an optional action that is required"""
argument_signatures = [
Sig('-x', type=int, required=True),