Fix spelling.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ebccbec..5527a1b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
- Fix a crash on Solaris that occurred when calling close() on
an mmap'ed file which was already closed. (SF patch #665913)
-- Fixed serveral serious bugs in the zipimport implementation.
+- Fixed several serious bugs in the zipimport implementation.
- datetime changes:
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
compatible with those that have been implemented in Jython since
Jython 2.1.
-- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was inititally developed to
+- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was initially developed to
support zipimport, it offers a new, general import hook mechanism.
Several new variables have been added to the sys module:
sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and sys.path_importer_cache; these
@@ -1023,9 +1023,9 @@
- os.path exposes getctime.
- unittest.py now has two additional methods called assertAlmostEqual()
- and failIfAlmostEqual(). They implement an approximate comparision
+ and failIfAlmostEqual(). They implement an approximate comparison
by rounding the difference between the two arguments and comparing
- the result to zero. Approximate comparision is essential for
+ the result to zero. Approximate comparison is essential for
unit tests of floating point results.
- calendar.py now depends on the new datetime module rather than
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@
- doctest.testmod can now be called without argument, which means to
test the current module.
-- When cancelling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard
+- When canceling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard
interrupt, the server would shut down but not terminate (waiting on
client threads). A new member variable, daemon_threads, was added to
the ThreadingMixIn class in SocketServer.py to make it explicit that
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@
the ob_sval member, so as a precaution the API_VERSION has been
incremented. The apparently unused feature of "indirect interned
strings", supported by the ob_sinterned member, is gone. Interned
- strings are now usually mortal; theres a new API,
+ strings are now usually mortal; there is a new API,
PyString_InternImmortal() that creates immortal interned strings.
(The ob_sstate member can only take three values; however, while
making it a char saves a few bytes per string object on average, in
@@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@
improvement over the previous Berkeley DB 1.85, which had many
bugs.
XXX What are the licensing issues here?
- XXX If a user has a database created with a previous verion of
+ XXX If a user has a database created with a previous version of
XXX Python, what must they do to convert it?
XXX I'm still not sure how to link this thing (see PCbuild/readme.txt).
XXX The version # is likely to change before 2.3a1.
@@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@
- When Python is built under a Microsoft compiler, sys.version now
includes the compiler version number (_MSC_VER). For example, under
- MSVC 6, sys.version constains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is
+ MSVC 6, sys.version contains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is
the value of _MSC_VER under MSVC 6.
- Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes. One cause
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@
There are hooks in the IDE to allow accessing the Python documentation
(and Apple's Carbon and Cocoa documentation) through the Help Viewer.
See Mac/OSX/README for converting the Python documentation to a
- Help Viewer comaptible form and installing it.
+ Help Viewer compatible form and installing it.
- OSA support has been redesigned and the generated Python classes now
mirror the inheritance defined by the underlying OSA classes.
@@ -2175,7 +2175,7 @@
Calibration must still be done manually (see the docs for the profile
module).
- Note that Profile.calibrate() must be overriden by subclasses.
+ Note that Profile.calibrate() must be overridden by subclasses.
Improving the accuracy required exploiting detailed knowledge of
profiler internals; the earlier method abstracted away the details
and measured a simplified model instead, but consequently computed