[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Correct “an” → “a” with “Unicode”, “user”, “UTF”, etc

martin.panter python-checkins at python.org
Thu Apr 14 23:35:27 EDT 2016


https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0f5eb87afd23
changeset:   100981:0f5eb87afd23
branch:      2.7
parent:      100971:3a3b30c310e5
user:        Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com>
date:        Fri Apr 15 02:14:19 2016 +0000
summary:
  Correct “an” → “a” with “Unicode”, “user”, “UTF”, etc

This affects documentation and code comments.

files:
  Doc/c-api/unicode.rst                 |  6 +++---
  Doc/howto/urllib2.rst                 |  2 +-
  Doc/library/ctypes.rst                |  2 +-
  Doc/library/heapq.rst                 |  2 +-
  Doc/library/ic.rst                    |  2 +-
  Doc/library/io.rst                    |  2 +-
  Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst      |  2 +-
  Doc/library/ttk.rst                   |  2 +-
  Doc/library/webbrowser.rst            |  2 +-
  Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst |  2 +-
  Doc/library/xml.sax.reader.rst        |  2 +-
  Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst             |  4 ++--
  Include/stringobject.h                |  6 +++---
  Include/unicodeobject.h               |  4 ++--
  Lib/heapq.py                          |  2 +-
  Lib/ntpath.py                         |  4 ++--
  Lib/os2emxpath.py                     |  4 ++--
  Lib/test/test_print.py                |  2 +-
  Lib/test/test_zlib.py                 |  2 +-
  Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py          |  2 +-
  Mac/Modules/icgluemodule.c            |  4 ++--
  Misc/HISTORY                          |  2 +-
  Misc/NEWS                             |  8 ++++----
  Modules/_elementtree.c                |  2 +-
  Modules/_heapqmodule.c                |  2 +-
  Objects/codeobject.c                  |  2 +-
  Python/codecs.c                       |  4 ++--
  27 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject *PyUnicode_FromString(const char *u)
 
-   Create a Unicode object from an UTF-8 encoded null-terminated char buffer
+   Create a Unicode object from a UTF-8 encoded null-terminated char buffer
    *u*.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.6
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(PyObject *obj, const char *encoding, const char *errors)
 
-   Coerce an encoded object *obj* to an Unicode object and return a reference with
+   Coerce an encoded object *obj* to a Unicode object and return a reference with
    incremented refcount.
 
    String and other char buffer compatible objects are decoded according to the
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@
 
    If *Py_UNICODE_WIDE* is defined, a single :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` value may get
    represented as a surrogate pair. If it is not defined, each :c:type:`Py_UNICODE`
-   values is interpreted as an UCS-2 character.
+   values is interpreted as a UCS-2 character.
 
    Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by the codec.
 
diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     html = response.read()
 
 Many uses of urllib2 will be that simple (note that instead of an 'http:' URL we
-could have used an URL starting with 'ftp:', 'file:', etc.).  However, it's the
+could have used a URL starting with 'ftp:', 'file:', etc.).  However, it's the
 purpose of this tutorial to explain the more complicated cases, concentrating on
 HTTP.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@
    allows specifying the size of the array if the length of the string should not
    be used.
 
-   If the first parameter is a 8-bit string, it is converted into an unicode string
+   If the first parameter is a 8-bit string, it is converted into a unicode string
    according to ctypes conversion rules.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/heapq.rst b/Doc/library/heapq.rst
--- a/Doc/library/heapq.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/heapq.rst
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
 
    15 16   17 18   19 20   21 22   23 24   25 26   27 28   29 30
 
-In the tree above, each cell *k* is topping ``2*k+1`` and ``2*k+2``. In an usual
+In the tree above, each cell *k* is topping ``2*k+1`` and ``2*k+2``. In a usual
 binary tournament we see in sports, each cell is the winner over the two cells
 it tops, and we can trace the winner down the tree to see all opponents s/he
 had.  However, in many computer applications of such tournaments, we do not need
diff --git a/Doc/library/ic.rst b/Doc/library/ic.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ic.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ic.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
 .. method:: IC.parseurl(data[, start[, end[, hint]]])
 
-   Find an URL somewhere in *data* and return start position, end position and the
+   Find a URL somewhere in *data* and return start position, end position and the
    URL. The optional *start* and *end* can be used to limit the search, so for
    instance if a user clicks in a long text field you can pass the whole text field
    and the click-position in *start* and this routine will return the whole URL in
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@
 
 .. class:: TextIOBase
 
-   Base class for text streams.  This class provides an unicode character
+   Base class for text streams.  This class provides a unicode character
    and line based interface to stream I/O.  There is no :meth:`readinto`
    method because Python's :class:`unicode` strings are immutable.
    It inherits :class:`IOBase`.  There is no public constructor.
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
--- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@
 
    .. method:: emit(record)
 
-      Sends the record to the Web server as an URL-encoded dictionary. The
+      Sends the record to the Web server as a URL-encoded dictionary. The
       :meth:`mapLogRecord` method is used to convert the record to the
       dictionary to be sent.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/ttk.rst b/Doc/library/ttk.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ttk.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ttk.rst
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
 headings. Columns may be accessed by number or symbolic names listed in the
 widget option columns. See `Column Identifiers`_.
 
-Each item is identified by an unique name. The widget will generate item IDs
+Each item is identified by a unique name. The widget will generate item IDs
 if they are not supplied by the caller. There is a distinguished root item,
 named ``{}``. The root item itself is not displayed; its children appear at the
 top level of the hierarchy.
diff --git a/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst b/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
--- a/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 browser and wait.
 
 The script :program:`webbrowser` can be used as a command-line interface for the
-module. It accepts an URL as the argument. It accepts the following optional
+module. It accepts a URL as the argument. It accepts the following optional
 parameters: ``-n`` opens the URL in a new browser window, if possible;
 ``-t`` opens the URL in a new browser page ("tab"). The options are,
 naturally, mutually exclusive.  Usage example::
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@
    to get proper namespace handling on output.  *text_or_uri* is a string
    containing the QName value, in the form {uri}local, or, if the tag argument
    is given, the URI part of a QName.  If *tag* is given, the first argument is
-   interpreted as an URI, and this argument is interpreted as a local name.
+   interpreted as a URI, and this argument is interpreted as a local name.
    :class:`QName` instances are opaque.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.sax.reader.rst b/Doc/library/xml.sax.reader.rst
--- a/Doc/library/xml.sax.reader.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.sax.reader.rst
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 
    Process an input source, producing SAX events. The *source* object can be a
    system identifier (a string identifying the input source -- typically a file
-   name or an URL), a file-like object, or an :class:`InputSource` object. When
+   name or a URL), a file-like object, or an :class:`InputSource` object. When
    :meth:`parse` returns, the input is completely processed, and the parser object
    can be discarded or reset. As a limitation, the current implementation only
    accepts byte streams; processing of character streams is for further study.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
--- a/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
@@ -434,11 +434,11 @@
    error.
 
 In the following example we're going to intentionally cause a :exc:`ProtocolError`
-by providing an URI that doesn't point to an XMLRPC server::
+by providing a URI that doesn't point to an XMLRPC server::
 
    import xmlrpclib
 
-   # create a ServerProxy with an URI that doesn't respond to XMLRPC requests
+   # create a ServerProxy with a URI that doesn't respond to XMLRPC requests
    proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://www.google.com/")
 
    try:
diff --git a/Include/stringobject.h b/Include/stringobject.h
--- a/Include/stringobject.h
+++ b/Include/stringobject.h
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 /* Encodes a string object and returns the result as Python string
    object.   
    
-   If the codec returns an Unicode object, the object is converted
+   If the codec returns a Unicode object, the object is converted
    back to a string using the default encoding.
 
    DEPRECATED - use PyString_AsEncodedObject() instead. */
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 /* Decodes a string object and returns the result as Python string
    object.  
    
-   If the codec returns an Unicode object, the object is converted
+   If the codec returns a Unicode object, the object is converted
    back to a string using the default encoding.
 
    DEPRECATED - use PyString_AsDecodedObject() instead. */
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
     );
 
 /* Provides access to the internal data buffer and size of a string
-   object or the default encoded version of an Unicode object. Passing
+   object or the default encoded version of a Unicode object. Passing
    NULL as *len parameter will force the string buffer to be
    0-terminated (passing a string with embedded NULL characters will
    cause an exception).  */
diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
--- a/Include/unicodeobject.h
+++ b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@
     Py_ssize_t length           /* New length */
     );
 
-/* Coerce obj to an Unicode object and return a reference with
+/* Coerce obj to a Unicode object and return a reference with
    *incremented* refcount.
 
    Coercion is done in the following way:
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@
     const char *errors          /* error handling */
     );
 
-/* Coerce obj to an Unicode object and return a reference with
+/* Coerce obj to a Unicode object and return a reference with
    *incremented* refcount.
 
    Unicode objects are passed back as-is (subclasses are converted to
diff --git a/Lib/heapq.py b/Lib/heapq.py
--- a/Lib/heapq.py
+++ b/Lib/heapq.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 
 In the tree above, each cell `k' is topping `2*k+1' and `2*k+2'.  In
-an usual binary tournament we see in sports, each cell is the winner
+a usual binary tournament we see in sports, each cell is the winner
 over the two cells it tops, and we can trace the winner down the tree
 to see all opponents s/he had.  However, in many computer applications
 of such tournaments, we do not need to trace the history of a winner.
diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
     Return a 2-tuple (unc, rest); either part may be empty.
     If unc is not empty, it has the form '//host/mount' (or similar
     using backslashes).  unc+rest is always the input path.
-    Paths containing drive letters never have an UNC part.
+    Paths containing drive letters never have a UNC part.
     """
     if p[1:2] == ':':
         return '', p # Drive letter present
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
 lexists = exists
 
 # Is a path a mount point?  Either a root (with or without drive letter)
-# or an UNC path with at most a / or \ after the mount point.
+# or a UNC path with at most a / or \ after the mount point.
 
 def ismount(path):
     """Test whether a path is a mount point (defined as root of drive)"""
diff --git a/Lib/os2emxpath.py b/Lib/os2emxpath.py
--- a/Lib/os2emxpath.py
+++ b/Lib/os2emxpath.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     Return a 2-tuple (unc, rest); either part may be empty.
     If unc is not empty, it has the form '//host/mount' (or similar
     using backslashes).  unc+rest is always the input path.
-    Paths containing drive letters never have an UNC part.
+    Paths containing drive letters never have a UNC part.
     """
     if p[1:2] == ':':
         return '', p # Drive letter present
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 # Is a path a directory?
 
 # Is a path a mount point?  Either a root (with or without drive letter)
-# or an UNC path with at most a / or \ after the mount point.
+# or a UNC path with at most a / or \ after the mount point.
 
 def ismount(path):
     """Test whether a path is a mount point (defined as root of drive)"""
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_print.py b/Lib/test/test_print.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_print.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_print.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, print, '', file='')
 
     def test_mixed_args(self):
-        # If an unicode arg is passed, sep and end should be unicode, too.
+        # If a unicode arg is passed, sep and end should be unicode, too.
         class Recorder(object):
 
             def __init__(self, must_be_unicode):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_zlib.py b/Lib/test/test_zlib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_zlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zlib.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(zlib.decompress(x), data)
 
     def test_incomplete_stream(self):
-        # An useful error message is given
+        # A useful error message is given
         x = zlib.compress(HAMLET_SCENE)
         self.assertRaisesRegexp(zlib.error,
             "Error -5 while decompressing data: incomplete or truncated stream",
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@
 # @param text A string containing the QName value, in the form {uri}local,
 #     or, if the tag argument is given, the URI part of a QName.
 # @param tag Optional tag.  If given, the first argument is interpreted as
-#     an URI, and this argument is interpreted as a local name.
+#     a URI, and this argument is interpreted as a local name.
 # @return An opaque object, representing the QName.
 
 class QName(object):
diff --git a/Mac/Modules/icgluemodule.c b/Mac/Modules/icgluemodule.c
--- a/Mac/Modules/icgluemodule.c
+++ b/Mac/Modules/icgluemodule.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
 
 
 static char ici_ICParseURL__doc__[] =
-"(hint, data, selStart, selEnd, handle)->selStart, selEnd; Find an URL, return in handle"
+"(hint, data, selStart, selEnd, handle)->selStart, selEnd; Find a URL, return in handle"
 ;
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
 
 
 static char ici_ICLaunchURL__doc__[] =
-"(hint, data, selStart, selEnd)->None; Find an URL and launch the correct app"
+"(hint, data, selStart, selEnd)->None; Find a URL and launch the correct app"
 ;
 
 static PyObject *
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -8024,7 +8024,7 @@
 
 - There is a new Unicode companion to the PyObject_Str() API
   called PyObject_Unicode(). It behaves in the same way as the
-  former, but assures that the returned value is an Unicode object
+  former, but assures that the returned value is a Unicode object
   (applying the usual coercion if necessary).
 
 - The comparison operators support "rich comparison overloading" (PEP
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -5992,7 +5992,7 @@
 - Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
   is set.
 
-- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
+- Issue #1583863: A unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
 
 - Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
   arguments to a function correct.
@@ -6497,7 +6497,7 @@
   when the release file is empty.
 
 - Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
-  Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
+  Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return a utf-8
   encoded string for them.  This ensures that the upload and register commands
   send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
 
@@ -8873,7 +8873,7 @@
 - Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
   BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
 
-- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
+- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling a URL with double slash
   after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
 
 - Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
@@ -10205,7 +10205,7 @@
   ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
   its type.
 
-- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
+- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains a
   unicode name.
 
 - Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
diff --git a/Modules/_elementtree.c b/Modules/_elementtree.c
--- a/Modules/_elementtree.c
+++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c
@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@
         /* decode universal name */
 #if defined(Py_USING_UNICODE)
         /* inline makestring, to avoid duplicating the source string if
-           it's not an utf-8 string */
+           it's not a utf-8 string */
         p = PyString_AS_STRING(tag);
         if (checkstring(p, size)) {
             value = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(p, size, "strict");
diff --git a/Modules/_heapqmodule.c b/Modules/_heapqmodule.c
--- a/Modules/_heapqmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_heapqmodule.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@
 \n\
 \n\
 In the tree above, each cell `k' is topping `2*k+1' and `2*k+2'.  In\n\
-an usual binary tournament we see in sports, each cell is the winner\n\
+a usual binary tournament we see in sports, each cell is the winner\n\
 over the two cells it tops, and we can trace the winner down the tree\n\
 to see all opponents s/he had.  However, in many computer applications\n\
 of such tournaments, we do not need to trace the history of a winner.\n\
diff --git a/Objects/codeobject.c b/Objects/codeobject.c
--- a/Objects/codeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/codeobject.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
         return key;
     }
     else {
-        /* for other types, use the object identifier as an unique identifier
+        /* for other types, use the object identifier as a unique identifier
          * to ensure that they are seen as unequal. */
         PyObject *obj_id = PyLong_FromVoidPtr(op);
         if (obj_id == NULL)
diff --git a/Python/codecs.c b/Python/codecs.c
--- a/Python/codecs.c
+++ b/Python/codecs.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
     return codec_getstreamcodec(encoding, stream, errors, 3);
 }
 
-/* Encode an object (e.g. an Unicode object) using the given encoding
+/* Encode an object (e.g. a Unicode object) using the given encoding
    and return the resulting encoded object (usually a Python string).
 
    errors is passed to the encoder factory as argument if non-NULL. */
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@
 }
 
 /* Decode an object (usually a Python string) using the given encoding
-   and return an equivalent object (e.g. an Unicode object).
+   and return an equivalent object (e.g. a Unicode object).
 
    errors is passed to the decoder factory as argument if non-NULL. */
 

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