[Python-checkins] cpython (3.4): Fix a few grammar problems in the documentation and comments

Fri Nov 13 21:08:58 EST 2015

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c3282d91055f
changeset: 99122:c3282d91055f
branch: 3.4
user: Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com>
date: Sat Nov 14 01:07:43 2015 +0000
summary:
 Fix a few grammar problems in the documentation and comments
files:
 Doc/library/ast.rst | 2 +-
 Doc/library/copy.rst | 4 ++--
 Doc/library/ftplib.rst | 4 ++--
 Lib/doctest.py | 2 +-
 Lib/test/test_argparse.py | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 :mod:`ast` Helpers
 ------------------
 
-Apart from the node classes, :mod:`ast` module defines these utility functions
+Apart from the node classes, the :mod:`ast` module defines these utility functions
 and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
 
 .. function:: parse(source, filename='<unknown>', mode='exec')
diff --git a/Doc/library/copy.rst b/Doc/library/copy.rst
--- a/Doc/library/copy.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/copy.rst
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@
 
 Classes can use the same interfaces to control copying that they use to control
 pickling. See the description of module :mod:`pickle` for information on these
-methods. In fact, :mod:`copy` module uses the registered pickle functions from
-:mod:`copyreg` module.
+methods. In fact, the :mod:`copy` module uses the registered
+pickle functions from the :mod:`copyreg` module.
 
 .. index::
 single: __copy__() (copy protocol)
diff --git a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
@@ -418,8 +418,8 @@
 
 .. method:: FTP_TLS.auth()
 
- Set up secure control connection by using TLS or SSL, depending on what
- specified in :meth:`ssl_version` attribute.
+ Set up a secure control connection by using TLS or SSL, depending on what
+ is specified in the :attr:`ssl_version` attribute.
 
 .. versionchanged:: 3.4
 The method now supports hostname check with
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@
 
 # If `want` contains hex-escaped character such as "\u1234",
 # then `want` is a string of six characters(e.g. [,円u,1,2,3,4]).
- # On the other hand, `got` could be an another sequence of
+ # On the other hand, `got` could be another sequence of
 # characters such as [\u1234], so `want` and `got` should
 # be folded to hex-escaped ASCII string to compare.
 got = self._toAscii(got)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -3019,7 +3019,7 @@
 '''Test extremely small number of columns.
 
 TestCase prevents "COLUMNS" from being too small in the tests themselves,
- but we don't want any exceptions thrown in such case. Only ugly representation.
+ but we don't want any exceptions thrown in such cases. Only ugly representation.
 '''
 def setUp(self):
 env = support.EnvironmentVarGuard()
-- 
Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython
