Issue #27171: Fix typos in documentation, code comments, and tests

Demo/tkinter/ttk/ttkcalendar.py

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class Calendar(ttk.Frame):
 
         self._date = self._date - self.timedelta(days=1)
         self._date = self.datetime(self._date.year, self._date.month, 1)
-        self._build_calendar() # reconstuct calendar
+        self._build_calendar() # reconstruct calendar
 
     def _next_month(self):
         """Update calendar to show the next month."""

Include/pymacconfig.h

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
       * Therefore surpress the toolbox-glue in 64-bit mode.
       */
 
-    /* In 64-bit mode setpgrp always has no argments, in 32-bit
+    /* In 64-bit mode setpgrp always has no arguments, in 32-bit
      * mode that depends on the compilation environment
      */
 #       undef SETPGRP_HAVE_ARG

Lib/Cookie.py

@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ as a string.
 Backwards Compatibility
 -----------------------
 
-In order to keep compatibilty with earlier versions of Cookie.py,
+In order to keep compatibility with earlier versions of Cookie.py,
 it is still possible to use Cookie.Cookie() to create a Cookie.  In
 fact, this simply returns a SmartCookie.
 

Lib/_osx_support.py

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ def _find_appropriate_compiler(_config_vars):
     #    gcc-4.2 is either not present, or a copy of 'llvm-gcc' that
     #    miscompiles Python.
 
-    # skip checks if the compiler was overriden with a CC env variable
+    # skip checks if the compiler was overridden with a CC env variable
     if 'CC' in os.environ:
         return _config_vars
 
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def _find_appropriate_compiler(_config_vars):
     if cc != oldcc:
         # Found a replacement compiler.
         # Modify config vars using new compiler, if not already explicitly
-        # overriden by an env variable, preserving additional arguments.
+        # overridden by an env variable, preserving additional arguments.
         for cv in _COMPILER_CONFIG_VARS:
             if cv in _config_vars and cv not in os.environ:
                 cv_split = _config_vars[cv].split()
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ def _remove_universal_flags(_config_vars):
     """Remove all universal build arguments from config vars"""
 
     for cv in _UNIVERSAL_CONFIG_VARS:
-        # Do not alter a config var explicitly overriden by env var
+        # Do not alter a config var explicitly overridden by env var
         if cv in _config_vars and cv not in os.environ:
             flags = _config_vars[cv]
             flags = re.sub('-arch\s+\w+\s', ' ', flags)
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ def _remove_unsupported_archs(_config_vars):
     # build extensions on OSX 10.7 and later with the prebuilt
     # 32-bit installer on the python.org website.
 
-    # skip checks if the compiler was overriden with a CC env variable
+    # skip checks if the compiler was overridden with a CC env variable
     if 'CC' in os.environ:
         return _config_vars
 
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ def _remove_unsupported_archs(_config_vars):
             # across Xcode and compiler versions, there is no reliable way
             # to be sure why it failed.  Assume here it was due to lack of
             # PPC support and remove the related '-arch' flags from each
-            # config variables not explicitly overriden by an environment
+            # config variables not explicitly overridden by an environment
             # variable.  If the error was for some other reason, we hope the
             # failure will show up again when trying to compile an extension
             # module.
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ def _check_for_unavailable_sdk(_config_vars):
         sdk = m.group(1)
         if not os.path.exists(sdk):
             for cv in _UNIVERSAL_CONFIG_VARS:
-                # Do not alter a config var explicitly overriden by env var
+                # Do not alter a config var explicitly overridden by env var
                 if cv in _config_vars and cv not in os.environ:
                     flags = _config_vars[cv]
                     flags = re.sub(r'-isysroot\s+\S+(?:\s|$)', ' ', flags)

Lib/_pyio.py

@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ class BufferedReader(_BufferedIOMixin):
                 break
             avail += len(chunk)
             chunks.append(chunk)
-        # n is more then avail only when an EOF occurred or when
+        # n is more than avail only when an EOF occurred or when
         # read() would have blocked.
         n = min(n, avail)
         out = b"".join(chunks)

Lib/bsddb/test/test_all.py

@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ def get_new_database_path() :
     return path
 
 
-# This path can be overriden via "set_test_path_prefix()".
+# This path can be overridden via "set_test_path_prefix()".
 import os, os.path
 get_new_path.prefix=os.path.join(os.environ.get("TMPDIR",
     os.path.join(os.sep,"tmp")), "z-Berkeley_DB")

Lib/decimal.py

@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ class Decimal(object):
     def __pos__(self, context=None):
         """Returns a copy, unless it is a sNaN.
 
-        Rounds the number (if more then precision digits)
+        Rounds the number (if more than precision digits)
         """
         if self._is_special:
             ans = self._check_nans(context=context)

Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py

@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ class BuildExtTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
 
     def test_compiler_option(self):
         # cmd.compiler is an option and
-        # should not be overriden by a compiler instance
+        # should not be overridden by a compiler instance
         # when the command is run
         dist = Distribution()
         cmd = build_ext(dist)

Lib/hotshot/__init__.py

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class Profile:
 
         Additional positional and keyword arguments may be passed
         along; the result of the call is returned, and exceptions are
-        allowed to propogate cleanly, while ensuring that profiling is
+        allowed to propagate cleanly, while ensuring that profiling is
         disabled on the way out.
         """
         return self._prof.runcall(func, args, kw)

Lib/idlelib/AutoComplete.py

 """AutoComplete.py - An IDLE extension for automatically completing names.
 
-This extension can complete either attribute names of file names. It can pop
+This extension can complete either attribute names or file names. It can pop
 a window with all available names, for the user to select from.
 """
 import os

Lib/idlelib/MultiCall.py

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class _SimpleBinder:
             self.widget.unbind(self.widgetinst, self.sequence, self.handlerid)
 
 # An int in range(1 << len(_modifiers)) represents a combination of modifiers
-# (if the least significent bit is on, _modifiers[0] is on, and so on).
+# (if the least significant bit is on, _modifiers[0] is on, and so on).
 # _state_subsets gives for each combination of modifiers, or *state*,
 # a list of the states which are a subset of it. This list is ordered by the
 # number of modifiers is the state - the most specific state comes first.

Lib/idlelib/rpc.py

-"""RPC Implemention, originally written for the Python Idle IDE
+"""RPC Implementation, originally written for the Python Idle IDE
 
 For security reasons, GvR requested that Idle's Python execution server process
 connect to the Idle process, which listens for the connection.  Since Idle has

Lib/locale.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import re
 import operator
 import functools
 
-# keep a copy of the builtin str type, because 'str' name is overriden
+# keep a copy of the builtin str type, because 'str' name is overridden
 # in globals by a function below
 _str = str
 

Lib/pdb.doc

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ If a file ".pdbrc" exists in your home directory or in the current
 directory, it is read in and executed as if it had been typed at the
 debugger prompt.  This is particularly useful for aliases.  If both
 files exist, the one in the home directory is read first and aliases
-defined there can be overriden by the local file.
+defined there can be overridden by the local file.
 
 Aside from aliases, the debugger is not directly programmable; but it
 is implemented as a class from which you can derive your own debugger

Lib/plat-mac/bgenlocations.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ TOOLBOXDIR="/Users/jack/src/python/Lib/plat-mac/Carbon"
 # Creator for C files:
 CREATOR="CWIE"
 
-# The previous definitions can be overriden by creating a module
+# The previous definitions can be overridden by creating a module
 # bgenlocationscustomize.py and putting it in site-packages (or anywere else
 # on sys.path, actually)
 try:

Lib/test/test_socket.py

@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
                 pass
 
     def check_sendall_interrupted(self, with_timeout):
-        # socketpair() is not stricly required, but it makes things easier.
+        # socketpair() is not strictly required, but it makes things easier.
         if not hasattr(signal, 'alarm') or not hasattr(socket, 'socketpair'):
             self.skipTest("signal.alarm and socket.socketpair required for this test")
         # Our signal handlers clobber the C errno by calling a math function
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ class BasicTCPTest(SocketConnectedTest):
         self.serv_conn.sendall(big_chunk)
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(socket, 'fromfd'),
-                         'socket.fromfd not availble')
+                         'socket.fromfd not available')
     def testFromFd(self):
         # Testing fromfd()
         fd = self.cli_conn.fileno()

Lib/test/test_sys_setprofile.py

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ class ProfileHookTestCase(TestCaseBase):
                               (1, 'return', g_ident),
                               ])
 
-    def test_exception_propogation(self):
+    def test_exception_propagation(self):
         def f(p):
             1./0
         def g(p):

Misc/HISTORY

@@ -10009,7 +10009,7 @@ Fri Mar 26 22:36:00 1999  Fred Drake  <fdrake@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
 
 	* Tools/scripts/dutree.py:
 	During display, if EPIPE is raised, it's probably because a pager was
-	killed.  Discard the error in that case, but propogate it otherwise.
+	killed.  Discard the error in that case, but propagate it otherwise.
 
 Fri Mar 26 16:20:45 1999  Guido van Rossum  <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -2344,8 +2344,8 @@ Library
   with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
 
 - Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
-  is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
-  the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden.  This restores
+  is overridden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
+  the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overridden.  This restores
   Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.
 
 - Issue #18071: C extension module builds on OS X could fail with TypeError
@@ -5467,7 +5467,7 @@ Extension Modules
 
 - Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
   compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
-  not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
+  not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basically always
   returns the same information as the id command.
 
   os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
@@ -8076,7 +8076,7 @@ Library
   backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
 
 - Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
-  file was overriden by the gztar one.
+  file was overridden by the gztar one.
 
 - Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
 
@@ -8365,7 +8365,7 @@ Build
   installed.
 
 - Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
-  error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
+  error. Configure now explicitly tells you about this.
 
 - Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support.  It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
   python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory.  Patch by Clinton Roy.

Modules/_bsddb.c

@@ -3686,7 +3686,7 @@ _DB_has_key(DBObject* self, PyObject* keyobj, PyObject* txnobj)
     /*
     ** DB_BUFFER_SMALL is only used if we use "get".
     ** We can drop it when we only use "exists",
-    ** when we drop suport for Berkeley DB < 4.6.
+    ** when we drop support for Berkeley DB < 4.6.
     */
     if (err == DB_BUFFER_SMALL || err == 0) {
         Py_INCREF(Py_True);

Modules/ld_so_aix.in

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #
 #   ARGUMENTS:      Same as for "ld". The following arguments are processed
 #                   or supplied by this script (those marked with an asterisk
-#                   can be overriden from command line):
+#                   can be overridden from command line):
 #
 #                       Argument                     Default value
 #                   (*) -o [OutputFileName]          -o shr.o
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ if test ! -n "$*"; then
 fi
 
 # Default import file for Python
-# Can be overriden by providing a -bI: argument.
+# Can be overridden by providing a -bI: argument.
 impfile="./python.exp"
 
 # Parse arguments
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ if test -z "$expfile"; then
 fi
 
 # Default entry symbol for Python modules = init[modulename]
-# Can be overriden by providing a -e argument.
+# Can be overridden by providing a -e argument.
 if test -z "$entry"; then
   entry=init`echo $filename | sed "s/module.*//"`
 fi

Modules/readline.c

@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ setup_readline(void)
 
 #ifndef __APPLE__
     if (!isatty(STDOUT_FILENO)) {
-        /* Issue #19884: stdout is no a terminal. Disable meta modifier
+        /* Issue #19884: stdout is not a terminal. Disable meta modifier
            keys to not write the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" into stdout. On
            terminals supporting 8 bit characters like TERM=xterm-256color
            (which is now the default Fedora since Fedora 18), the meta key is

Objects/fileobject.c

@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ file_truncate(PyFileObject *f, PyObject *args)
     if (initialpos == -1)
         goto onioerror;
 
-    /* Set newsize to current postion if newsizeobj NULL, else to the
+    /* Set newsize to current position if newsizeobj NULL, else to the
      * specified value.
      */
     if (newsizeobj != NULL) {

Tools/bgen/bgen/bgenVariable.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class Variable:
 
     """A Variable holds a type, a name, a transfer mode and flags.
 
-    Most of its methods call the correponding type method with the
+    Most of its methods call the corresponding type method with the
     variable name.
     """
 

setup.py

@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
                 # In every directory on the search path search for a dynamic
                 # library and then a static library, instead of first looking
                 # for dynamic libraries on the entire path.
-                # This way a staticly linked custom readline gets picked up
+                # This way a statically linked custom readline gets picked up
                 # before the (possibly broken) dynamic library in /usr/lib.
                 readline_extra_link_args = ('-Wl,-search_paths_first',)
             else:
@@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         #     --with-tcltk-libs="-L/path/to/tcllibs -ltclm.n \
         #                        -L/path/to/tklibs -ltkm.n"
         #
-        # These values can also be specified or overriden via make:
+        # These values can also be specified or overridden via make:
         #    make TCLTK_INCLUDES="..." TCLTK_LIBS="..."
         #
         # This can be useful for building and testing tkinter with multiple