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  r69846 | mark.dickinson | 2009-02-21 20:27:01 +0000 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #5341: Fix a variety of spelling errors.
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48 files changed, 83 insertions, 83 deletions

diff --git a/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-all-types-of-entries.py b/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-all-types-of-entries.py
index 1e3bb8c..84f162e 100644
--- a/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-all-types-of-entries.py
+++ b/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-all-types-of-entries.py
@@ -110,12 +110,12 @@ def makeCascadeMenu():
     Cascade_button.menu.choices = Menu(Cascade_button.menu)
 
     # ...and this is a menu that cascades from that.
-    Cascade_button.menu.choices.wierdones = Menu(Cascade_button.menu.choices)
+    Cascade_button.menu.choices.weirdones = Menu(Cascade_button.menu.choices)
 
     # then you define the menus from the deepest level on up.
-    Cascade_button.menu.choices.wierdones.add_command(label='avacado')
-    Cascade_button.menu.choices.wierdones.add_command(label='belgian endive')
-    Cascade_button.menu.choices.wierdones.add_command(label='beefaroni')
+    Cascade_button.menu.choices.weirdones.add_command(label='avacado')
+    Cascade_button.menu.choices.weirdones.add_command(label='belgian endive')
+    Cascade_button.menu.choices.weirdones.add_command(label='beefaroni')
 
     # definition of the menu one level up...
     Cascade_button.menu.choices.add_command(label='Chocolate')
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ def makeCascadeMenu():
     Cascade_button.menu.choices.add_command(label='Rocky Road')
     Cascade_button.menu.choices.add_command(label='BubbleGum')
     Cascade_button.menu.choices.add_cascade(
-        label='Wierd Flavors',
-        menu=Cascade_button.menu.choices.wierdones)
+        label='Weird Flavors',
+        menu=Cascade_button.menu.choices.weirdones)
 
     # and finally, the definition for the top level
     Cascade_button.menu.add_cascade(label='more choices',
diff --git a/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-simple.py b/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-simple.py
index a927c50..5d3303f 100644
--- a/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-simple.py
+++ b/Demo/tkinter/matt/menu-simple.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def makeFileMenu():
     File_button.menu = Menu(File_button)
 
     # add an item. The first param is a menu entry type,
-    # must be one of: "cascade", "checkbutton", "command", "radiobutton", "seperator"
+    # must be one of: "cascade", "checkbutton", "command", "radiobutton", "separator"
     # see menu-demo-2.py for examples of use
     File_button.menu.add_command(label='New...', underline=0,
                                  command=new_file)
diff --git a/Doc/howto/webservers.rst b/Doc/howto/webservers.rst
index 8cc53b8..2132390 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/webservers.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/webservers.rst
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ MVC stands for three components:
   user.  Typically this component is represented by the templates.
 * The *controller*.  This is the layer between the user and the model.  The
   controller reacts on user actions (like opening some specific URL) and tells
-  the model to modify the data if neccessary.
+  the model to modify the data if necessary.
 
 While one might think that MVC is a complex design pattern, in fact it is not.
 It is used in Python because it has turned out to be useful for creating clean,
@@ -435,9 +435,9 @@ maintainable web sites.
 .. note::
 
    While not all Python frameworks explicitly support MVC, it is often trivial
-   to create a web site which uses the MVC pattern by seperating the data logic
+   to create a web site which uses the MVC pattern by separating the data logic
    (the model) from the user interaction logic (the controller) and the
-   templates (the view).  That's why it is important not to write unneccessary
+   templates (the view).  That's why it is important not to write unnecessary
    Python code in the templates -- it is against MVC and creates more chaos.
 
 .. seealso::
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ Some notable frameworks
 -----------------------
 
 There is an incredible number of frameworks, so there is no way to describe them
-all.  It is not even neccessary, as most of these frameworks are nothing special
+all.  It is not even necessary, as most of these frameworks are nothing special
 and everything that can be done with these can also be done with one of the
 popular ones.
 
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ project called `Grok <http://grok.zope.org/>`_ which makes it possible for
 Another framework that's already been mentioned is `Pylons`_.  Pylons is much
 like TurboGears with ab even stronger emphasis on flexibility, which is bought
 at the cost of being more difficult to use.  Nearly every component can be
-exchanged, which makes it neccessary to use the documentation of every single
+exchanged, which makes it necessary to use the documentation of every single
 component, because there are so many Pylons combinations possible that can
 satisfy every requirement.  Pylons builds upon `Paste
 <http://pythonpaste.org/>`_, an extensive set of tools which are handy for WSGI.
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index df0e7e9..0c092c2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ builtin :func:`open` function is defined in this module.
 
 At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class :class:`IOBase`.  It
 defines the basic interface to a stream.  Note, however, that there is no
-seperation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are allowed
+separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are allowed
 to throw an :exc:`IOError` if they do not support a given operation.
 
 Extending :class:`IOBase` is :class:`RawIOBase` which deals simply with the
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ Text I/O
    is enabled.  With this enabled, on input, the lines endings ``'\n'``,
    ``'\r'``, or ``'\r\n'`` are translated to ``'\n'`` before being returned to
    the caller.  Conversely, on output, ``'\n'`` is translated to the system
-   default line seperator, :data:`os.linesep`.  If *newline* is any other of its
+   default line separator, :data:`os.linesep`.  If *newline* is any other of its
    legal values, that newline becomes the newline when the file is read and it
    is returned untranslated.  On output, ``'\n'`` is converted to the *newline*.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/pty.rst b/Doc/library/pty.rst
index ec1c75f..6579ef0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pty.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pty.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The :mod:`pty` module defines operations for handling the pseudo-terminal
 concept: starting another process and being able to write to and read from its
 controlling terminal programmatically.
 
-Because pseudo-terminal handling is highly platform dependant, there is code to
+Because pseudo-terminal handling is highly platform dependent, there is code to
 do it only for SGI and Linux. (The Linux code is supposed to work on other
 platforms, but hasn't been tested yet.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 8a88c0f..7f5e1ab 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ This module also defines four shortcut functions:
    To capture standard error in the result, use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT.
 
       >>> subprocess.check_output(
-              ["/bin/sh", "-c", "ls non_existant_file ; exit 0"],
+              ["/bin/sh", "-c", "ls non_existent_file ; exit 0"],
               stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-      'ls: non_existant_file: No such file or directory\n'
+      'ls: non_existent_file: No such file or directory\n'
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 7d106fc..191e95c 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ arguments)``.  This is occasionally useful to clients as well.  (Note that this
 only works if the base class is defined or imported directly in the global
 scope.)
 
-Python has two builtin functions that work with inheritance:
+Python has two built-in functions that work with inheritance:
 
 * Use :func:`isinstance` to check an object's type: ``isinstance(obj, int)``
   will be ``True`` only if ``obj.__class__`` is :class:`int` or some class
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 75163d0..f5a464b 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ A more verbose version of this snippet shows the flow explicitly::
             print(row[i], end="")
         print()
 
-In real world, you should prefer builtin functions to complex flow statements.
+In real world, you should prefer built-in functions to complex flow statements.
 The :func:`zip` function would do a great job for this use case::
 
     >>> list(zip(*mat))
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
index f41be3a..b6e04ff 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ display ::
    >>> 0.1
    0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625
 
-instead!  The Python prompt uses the builtin :func:`repr` function to obtain a
+instead!  The Python prompt uses the built-in :func:`repr` function to obtain a
 string version of everything it displays.  For floats, ``repr(float)`` rounds
 the true decimal value to 17 significant digits, giving ::
 
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ thing in all languages that support your hardware's floating-point arithmetic
 (although some languages may not *display* the difference by default, or in all
 output modes).
 
-Python's builtin :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and
+Python's built-in :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and
 you may wish to use that instead.  It's unusual for ``eval(str(x))`` to
 reproduce *x*, but the output may be more pleasant to look at::
 
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 9b90323..eabf662 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ notation.::
 This is particularly useful in combination with the new built-in :func:`vars`
 function, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables.
 
-For a complete overview of string formating with :meth:`str.format`, see
+For a complete overview of string formatting with :meth:`str.format`, see
 :ref:`formatstrings`.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
index ebb5233..de33259 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ operating system::
    >>> os.chdir('/server/accesslogs')
 
 Be sure to use the ``import os`` style instead of ``from os import *``.  This
-will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the builtin :func:`open` function which
+will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the built-in :func:`open` function which
 operates much differently.
 
 .. index:: builtin: help
 
-The builtin :func:`dir` and :func:`help` functions are useful as interactive
+The built-in :func:`dir` and :func:`help` functions are useful as interactive
 aids for working with large modules like :mod:`os`::
 
    >>> import os
diff --git a/Lib/difflib.py b/Lib/difflib.py
index 361be6e..052a627 100644
--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ def _mdiff(fromlines, tolines, context=None, linejunk=None,
     (from line tuple, to line tuple, boolean flag)
 
     from/to line tuple -- (line num, line text)
-        line num -- integer or None (to indicate a context seperation)
+        line num -- integer or None (to indicate a context separation)
         line text -- original line text with following markers inserted:
             '\0+' -- marks start of added text
             '\0-' -- marks start of deleted text
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_core.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_core.py
index 170d767..7f021dc 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_core.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class CoreTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_run_setup_uses_current_dir(self):
         # This tests that the setup script is run with the current directory
-        # as it's own current directory; this was temporarily broken by a
+        # as its own current directory; this was temporarily broken by a
         # previous patch when TESTFN did not use the current directory.
         sys.stdout = io.StringIO()
         cwd = os.getcwd()
diff --git a/Lib/email/message.py b/Lib/email/message.py
index 471d46b..412a550 100644
--- a/Lib/email/message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/message.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from email.charset import Charset
 SEMISPACE = '; '
 
 # Regular expression that matches `special' characters in parameters, the
-# existance of which force quoting of the parameter value.
+# existence of which force quoting of the parameter value.
 tspecials = re.compile(r'[ \(\)<>@,;:\\"/\[\]\?=]')
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/AutoComplete.py b/Lib/idlelib/AutoComplete.py
index 9d9a81e..fa1733f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/AutoComplete.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/AutoComplete.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class AutoComplete:
 
     def try_open_completions_event(self, event):
         """Happens when it would be nice to open a completion list, but not
-        really neccesary, for example after an dot, so function
+        really necessary, for example after an dot, so function
         calls won't be made.
         """
         lastchar = self.text.get("insert-1c")
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class AutoComplete:
                                          COMPLETE_FILES)
 
     def autocomplete_event(self, event):
-        """Happens when the user wants to complete his word, and if neccesary,
+        """Happens when the user wants to complete his word, and if necessary,
         open a completion list after that (if there is more than one
         completion)
         """
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 3279299..6ff8e6f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.1a3?
   window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger.
   IDLEfork 763524.
 
-- If user passes a non-existant filename on the commandline, just
+- If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just
   open a new file, don't raise a dialog.  IDLEfork 854928.
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index c2c1067..d41da60 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ builtin open function is defined in this module.
 
 At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class IOBase. It
 defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no
-seperation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are
+separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are
 allowed to throw an IOError if they do not support a given operation.
 
 Extending IOBase is RawIOBase which deals simply with the reading and
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ class TextIOWrapper(TextIOBase):
     enabled.  With this enabled, on input, the lines endings '\n', '\r',
     or '\r\n' are translated to '\n' before being returned to the
     caller. Conversely, on output, '\n' is translated to the system
-    default line seperator, os.linesep. If newline is any other of its
+    default line separator, os.linesep. If newline is any other of its
     legal values, that newline becomes the newline when the file is read
     and it is returned untranslated. On output, '\n' is converted to the
     newline.
diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py
index 2511595..7b1734c 100644
--- a/Lib/optparse.py
+++ b/Lib/optparse.py
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ class OptionParser (OptionContainer):
         """print_usage(file : file = stdout)
 
         Print the usage message for the current program (self.usage) to
-        'file' (default stdout).  Any occurence of the string "%prog" in
+        'file' (default stdout).  Any occurrence of the string "%prog" in
         self.usage is replaced with the name of the current program
         (basename of sys.argv[0]).  Does nothing if self.usage is empty
         or not defined.
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ class OptionParser (OptionContainer):
         """print_version(file : file = stdout)
 
         Print the version message for this program (self.version) to
-        'file' (default stdout).  As with print_usage(), any occurence
+        'file' (default stdout).  As with print_usage(), any occurrence
         of "%prog" in self.version is replaced by the current program's
         name.  Does nothing if self.version is empty or undefined.
         """
diff --git a/Lib/smtpd.py b/Lib/smtpd.py
index ea59aef..3dc9793 100755
--- a/Lib/smtpd.py
+++ b/Lib/smtpd.py
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ class MailmanProxy(PureProxy):
         s = StringIO(data)
         msg = Message.Message(s)
         # These headers are required for the proper execution of Mailman.  All
-        # MTAs in existance seem to add these if the original message doesn't
+        # MTAs in existence seem to add these if the original message doesn't
         # have them.
         if not msg.get('from'):
             msg['From'] = mailfrom
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index bd158f6..c461b25 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -446,9 +446,9 @@ def check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs):
     To capture standard error in the result, use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT.
 
     >>> check_output(["/bin/sh", "-c",
-                      "ls -l non_existant_file ; exit 0"],
+                      "ls -l non_existent_file ; exit 0"],
                      stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-    'ls: non_existant_file: No such file or directory\n'
+    'ls: non_existent_file: No such file or directory\n'
     """
     if 'stdout' in kwargs:
         raise ValueError('stdout argument not allowed, it will be overridden.')
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ class Popen(object):
                     # cause random failures on win9x.  Specifically a
                     # dialog: "Your program accessed mem currently in
                     # use at xxx" and a hopeful warning about the
-                    # stability of your system.  Cost is Ctrl+C wont
+                    # stability of your system.  Cost is Ctrl+C won't
                     # kill children.
                     creationflags |= CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
 
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index be7daf1..4264da3 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1753,7 +1753,7 @@ class TarFile(object):
     def getmember(self, name):
         """Return a TarInfo object for member `name'. If `name' can not be
            found in the archive, KeyError is raised. If a member occurs more
-           than once in the archive, its last occurence is assumed to be the
+           than once in the archive, its last occurrence is assumed to be the
            most up-to-date version.
         """
         tarinfo = self._getmember(name)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_calendar.py b/Lib/test/test_calendar.py
index 5debee9..e8b2ca5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_calendar.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_calendar.py
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ result_2004_html = """
 
 class OutputTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def normalize_calendar(self, s):
-        # Filters out locale dependant strings
+        # Filters out locale dependent strings
         def neitherspacenordigit(c):
             return not c.isspace() and not c.isdigit()
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cfgparser.py b/Lib/test/test_cfgparser.py
index dcc1a98..a8418ca 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cfgparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cfgparser.py
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ class TestCaseBase(unittest.TestCase):
         # Make sure the right things happen for remove_option();
         # added to include check for SourceForge bug #123324:
         self.failUnless(cf.remove_option('Foo Bar', 'foo'),
-                        "remove_option() failed to report existance of option")
+                        "remove_option() failed to report existence of option")
         self.failIf(cf.has_option('Foo Bar', 'foo'),
                     "remove_option() failed to remove option")
         self.failIf(cf.remove_option('Foo Bar', 'foo'),
-                    "remove_option() failed to report non-existance of option"
+                    "remove_option() failed to report non-existence of option"
                     " that was removed")
 
         self.assertRaises(configparser.NoSectionError,
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class TestCaseBase(unittest.TestCase):
         file1 = support.findfile("cfgparser.1")
         # check when we pass a mix of readable and non-readable files:
         cf = self.newconfig()
-        parsed_files = cf.read([file1, "nonexistant-file"])
+        parsed_files = cf.read([file1, "nonexistent-file"])
         self.assertEqual(parsed_files, [file1])
         self.assertEqual(cf.get("Foo Bar", "foo"), "newbar")
         # check when we pass only a filename:
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ class TestCaseBase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(cf.get("Foo Bar", "foo"), "newbar")
         # check when we pass only missing files:
         cf = self.newconfig()
-        parsed_files = cf.read(["nonexistant-file"])
+        parsed_files = cf.read(["nonexistent-file"])
         self.assertEqual(parsed_files, [])
         # check when we pass no files:
         cf = self.newconfig()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codeccallbacks.py b/Lib/test/test_codeccallbacks.py
index 549a348..56f3ac1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codeccallbacks.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codeccallbacks.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class CodecCallbackTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # useful that the error handler is not called for every single
         # unencodable character, but for a complete sequence of
         # unencodable characters, otherwise we would output many
-        # unneccessary escape sequences.
+        # unnecessary escape sequences.
 
         def uninamereplace(exc):
             if not isinstance(exc, UnicodeEncodeError):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descrtut.py b/Lib/test/test_descrtut.py
index 11a3422..2db3d33 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descrtut.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descrtut.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Here's the new type at work:
     {1: 3.25}
     >>> print(a[1])                     # show the new item
     3.25
-    >>> print(a[0])                     # a non-existant item
+    >>> print(a[0])                     # a non-existent item
     0.0
     >>> a.merge({1:100, 2:200})         # use a dict method
     >>> print(sortdict(a))              # show the result
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_funcattrs.py b/Lib/test/test_funcattrs.py
index 7aab8b8..5e47d6b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_funcattrs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_funcattrs.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ class ArbitraryFunctionAttrTest(FuncAttrsTest):
 
     def test_unset_attr(self):
         for func in [self.b, self.fi.a]:
-            try:  func.non_existant_attr
+            try:  func.non_existent_attr
             except AttributeError: pass
             else: self.fail("using unknown attributes should raise "
                             "AttributeError")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
index 16ca301..4529a8f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class OtherNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_ftp(self):
         urls = [
             'ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/README',
-            'ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/non-existant-file',
+            'ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/non-existent-file',
             #'ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/leenox/kernel/test',
             'ftp://gatekeeper.research.compaq.com/pub/DEC/SRC'
                 '/research-reports/00README-Legal-Rules-Regs',
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
index af49170..3d519ed 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -3300,7 +3300,7 @@ class PhotoImage(Image):
         """Return the color (red, green, blue) of the pixel at X,Y."""
         return self.tk.call(self.name, 'get', x, y)
     def put(self, data, to=None):
-        """Put row formated colors to image starting from
+        """Put row formatted colors to image starting from
         position TO, e.g. image.put("{red green} {blue yellow}", to=(4,6))"""
         args = (self.name, 'put', data)
         if to:
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_style.py b/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_style.py
index cd9d740..3eebb64 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_style.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_style.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class StyleTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         # correct layout, but "option" doesn't exist as option
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError, style.layout, 'Treeview',
-            [('name', {'option': 'inexistant'})])
+            [('name', {'option': 'inexistent'})])
 
 
     def test_theme_use(self):
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py b/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
index af45ca0..29fdce0 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
@@ -861,9 +861,9 @@ class TreeviewTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         # bad values
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError,
-            self.tv.reattach, 'nonexistant', '', 'end')
+            self.tv.reattach, 'nonexistent', '', 'end')
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError,
-            self.tv.detach, 'nonexistant')
+            self.tv.detach, 'nonexistent')
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError,
             self.tv.reattach, item2, 'otherparent', 'end')
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError,
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ class TreeviewTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.tv.delete(item1)
         self.failUnlessEqual(self.tv.focus(), '')
 
-        # try focusing inexistant item
+        # try focusing inexistent item
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError, self.tv.focus, 'hi')
 
 
@@ -1064,11 +1064,11 @@ class TreeviewTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.failUnlessEqual(self.tv.item(item, values=None), (123, 'a'))
         self.failUnlessEqual(self.tv.set(item), {'B': 123})
 
-        # inexistant column
+        # inexistent column
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError, self.tv.set, item, 'A')
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError, self.tv.set, item, 'A', 'b')
 
-        # inexistant item
+        # inexistent item
         self.failUnlessRaises(tkinter.TclError, self.tv.set, 'notme')
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/turtle.py b/Lib/turtle.py
index 55da4e9..ded2b27 100644
--- a/Lib/turtle.py
+++ b/Lib/turtle.py
@@ -2793,7 +2793,7 @@ class RawTurtle(TPen, TNavigator):
 
     def _drawturtle(self):
         """Manages the correct rendering of the turtle with respect to
-        its shape, resizemode, strech and tilt etc."""
+        its shape, resizemode, stretch and tilt etc."""
         screen = self.screen
         shape = screen._shapes[self.turtle.shapeIndex]
         ttype = shape._type
diff --git a/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py b/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py
index 4e0076c..025067a 100644
--- a/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py
+++ b/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ written by Barry Warsaw.
 """
 
 # Regular expression that matches `special' characters in parameters, the
-# existance of which force quoting of the parameter value.
+# existence of which force quoting of the parameter value.
 import re
 tspecials = re.compile(r'[ \(\)<>@,;:\\"/\[\]\?=]')
 
diff --git a/Mac/Tools/bundlebuilder.py b/Mac/Tools/bundlebuilder.py
index a66801b..6cc130f 100644
--- a/Mac/Tools/bundlebuilder.py
+++ b/Mac/Tools/bundlebuilder.py
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ class AppBuilder(BundleBuilder):
                 if USE_ZIPIMPORT:
                     if name != "zlib":
                         # neatly pack all extension modules in a subdirectory,
-                        # except zlib, since it's neccesary for bootstrapping.
+                        # except zlib, since it's necessary for bootstrapping.
                         dstpath = pathjoin("ExtensionModules", dstpath)
                     # Python modules are stored in a Zip archive, but put
                     # extensions in Contents/Resources/. Add a tiny "loader"
diff --git a/Misc/AIX-NOTES b/Misc/AIX-NOTES
index 613d501..d928f53 100644
--- a/Misc/AIX-NOTES
+++ b/Misc/AIX-NOTES
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:41:00 +0200 (EET)
 (2) Stefan Esser (se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE), in work done to compile Python
     1.0.0 on AIX 3.2.4, reports that AIX compilers don't like the LANG
     environment varaiable set to European locales.  This makes the compiler
-    generate floating point constants using "," as the decimal seperator,
+    generate floating point constants using "," as the decimal separator,
     which the assembler doesn't understand (or perhaps it is the other way
     around, with the assembler expecting, but not getting "," in float
     numbers).  "LANG=C; export LANG" solves the problem, as does
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index eb567c4..9cf9251 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -11247,7 +11247,7 @@ Tue Apr  6 19:38:18 1999  Guido van Rossum  <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
 	Also (quite separately, but strangely related to the philosophical
 	issue above) fix abspath() so that if win32api exists, it doesn't fail
 	when the path doesn't actually exist -- if GetFullPathName() fails,
-	fall back on the old strategy (join with getcwd() if neccessary, and
+	fall back on the old strategy (join with getcwd() if necessary, and
 	then use normpath()).
 
 	* configure.in, configure, config.h.in, acconfig.h:
diff --git a/Misc/cheatsheet b/Misc/cheatsheet
index e5d61af..789e9c3 100644
--- a/Misc/cheatsheet
+++ b/Misc/cheatsheet
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ s.istitle()       return True if string s is a titlecased string, False    (7)
 s.isupper()       return True if all characters in s are uppercase, False  (6)
                   otherwise.
 s.join(seq)       return a concatenation of the strings in the sequence
-                  seq, seperated by 's's.
+                  seq, separated by 's's.
 s.ljust(width)    return s left justified in a string of length width.    (1),
                                                                            (8)
 s.lower()         return a copy of s converted to lowercase.
@@ -1509,10 +1509,10 @@ secs)         monday), Julian day(1-366), daylight flag(-1,0 or 1))
 asctime(
 timeTuple),
 strftime(
-format,       return a formated string representing time.
+format,       return a formatted string representing time.
 timeTuple)
 mktime(tuple) inverse of localtime(). Return a float.
-strptime(     parse a formated string representing time, return tuple as in
+strptime(     parse a formatted string representing time, return tuple as in
 string[,      gmtime().
 format])
 sleep(secs)   Suspend execution for <secs> seconds. <secs> can be a float.
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/aclocal.m4 b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/aclocal.m4
index e927928..6b38324 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/aclocal.m4
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/aclocal.m4
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ if test -n "$_LT_AC_TAGVAR(hardcode_libdir_flag_spec, $1)" || \
    test -n "$_LT_AC_TAGVAR(runpath_var, $1)" || \
    test "X$_LT_AC_TAGVAR(hardcode_automatic, $1)" = "Xyes" ; then
 
-  # We can hardcode non-existant directories.
+  # We can hardcode non-existent directories.
   if test "$_LT_AC_TAGVAR(hardcode_direct, $1)" != no &&
      # If the only mechanism to avoid hardcoding is shlibpath_var, we
      # have to relink, otherwise we might link with an installed library
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure
index aaa7914..de0b9ac 100755
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure
@@ -9546,7 +9546,7 @@ if test -n "$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec" || \
    test -n "$runpath_var" || \
    test "X$hardcode_automatic" = "Xyes" ; then
 
-  # We can hardcode non-existant directories.
+  # We can hardcode non-existent directories.
   if test "$hardcode_direct" != no &&
      # If the only mechanism to avoid hardcoding is shlibpath_var, we
      # have to relink, otherwise we might link with an installed library
@@ -13514,7 +13514,7 @@ if test -n "$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec_CXX" || \
    test -n "$runpath_var_CXX" || \
    test "X$hardcode_automatic_CXX" = "Xyes" ; then
 
-  # We can hardcode non-existant directories.
+  # We can hardcode non-existent directories.
   if test "$hardcode_direct_CXX" != no &&
      # If the only mechanism to avoid hardcoding is shlibpath_var, we
      # have to relink, otherwise we might link with an installed library
@@ -16117,7 +16117,7 @@ if test -n "$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec_F77" || \
    test -n "$runpath_var_F77" || \
    test "X$hardcode_automatic_F77" = "Xyes" ; then
 
-  # We can hardcode non-existant directories.
+  # We can hardcode non-existent directories.
   if test "$hardcode_direct_F77" != no &&
      # If the only mechanism to avoid hardcoding is shlibpath_var, we
      # have to relink, otherwise we might link with an installed library
@@ -18720,7 +18720,7 @@ if test -n "$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec_GCJ" || \
    test -n "$runpath_var_GCJ" || \
    test "X$hardcode_automatic_GCJ" = "Xyes" ; then
 
-  # We can hardcode non-existant directories.
+  # We can hardcode non-existent directories.
   if test "$hardcode_direct_GCJ" != no &&
      # If the only mechanism to avoid hardcoding is shlibpath_var, we
      # have to relink, otherwise we might link with an installed library
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c
index 2896ae4..fa99255 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ extern void ffi_call_unix64 (void *args, unsigned long bytes, unsigned flags,
 /* Register class used for passing given 64bit part of the argument.
    These represent classes as documented by the PS ABI, with the exception
    of SSESF, SSEDF classes, that are basically SSE class, just gcc will
-   use SF or DFmode move instead of DImode to avoid reformating penalties.
+   use SF or DFmode move instead of DImode to avoid reformatting penalties.
 
    Similary we play games with INTEGERSI_CLASS to use cheaper SImode moves
    whenever possible (upper half does contain padding).  */
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/x86/x86-ffi64.c b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/x86/x86-ffi64.c
index ac37fb7..a262ed0 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/x86/x86-ffi64.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/x86/x86-ffi64.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ ffi_call_unix64(
 /*	Register class used for passing given 64bit part of the argument.
 	These represent classes as documented by the PS ABI, with the exception
 	of SSESF, SSEDF classes, that are basically SSE class, just gcc will
-	use SF or DFmode move instead of DImode to avoid reformating penalties.
+	use SF or DFmode move instead of DImode to avoid reformatting penalties.
 
 	Similary we play games with INTEGERSI_CLASS to use cheaper SImode moves
 	whenever possible (upper half does contain padding).  */
diff --git a/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c b/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c
index f795523..c490ded 100644
--- a/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c
+++ b/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static int _progress_handler(void* user_arg)
             PyErr_Clear();
         }
 
-        /* abort query if error occured */
+        /* abort query if error occurred */
         rc = 1; 
     } else {
         rc = (int)PyObject_IsTrue(ret);
diff --git a/Modules/arraymodule.c b/Modules/arraymodule.c
index 690c488..e55c2d0 100644
--- a/Modules/arraymodule.c
+++ b/Modules/arraymodule.c
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ array_count(arrayobject *self, PyObject *v)
 PyDoc_STRVAR(count_doc,
 "count(x)\n\
 \n\
-Return number of occurences of x in the array.");
+Return number of occurrences of x in the array.");
 
 static PyObject *
 array_index(arrayobject *self, PyObject *v)
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ array_index(arrayobject *self, PyObject *v)
 PyDoc_STRVAR(index_doc,
 "index(x)\n\
 \n\
-Return index of first occurence of x in the array.");
+Return index of first occurrence of x in the array.");
 
 static int
 array_contains(arrayobject *self, PyObject *v)
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ array_remove(arrayobject *self, PyObject *v)
 PyDoc_STRVAR(remove_doc,
 "remove(x)\n\
 \n\
-Remove the first occurence of x in the array.");
+Remove the first occurrence of x in the array.");
 
 static PyObject *
 array_pop(arrayobject *self, PyObject *args)
@@ -1982,15 +1982,15 @@ Methods:\n\
 append() -- append a new item to the end of the array\n\
 buffer_info() -- return information giving the current memory info\n\
 byteswap() -- byteswap all the items of the array\n\
-count() -- return number of occurences of an object\n\
+count() -- return number of occurrences of an object\n\
 extend() -- extend array by appending multiple elements from an iterable\n\
 fromfile() -- read items from a file object\n\
 fromlist() -- append items from the list\n\
 fromstring() -- append items from the string\n\
-index() -- return index of first occurence of an object\n\
+index() -- return index of first occurrence of an object\n\
 insert() -- insert a new item into the array at a provided position\n\
 pop() -- remove and return item (default last)\n\
-remove() -- remove first occurence of an object\n\
+remove() -- remove first occurrence of an object\n\
 reverse() -- reverse the order of the items in the array\n\
 tofile() -- write all items to a file object\n\
 tolist() -- return the array converted to an ordinary list\n\
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index dc47c6a..0d873d1 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -2490,7 +2490,7 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 static PyObject *
 posix__getfullpathname(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
-	/* assume encoded strings wont more than double no of chars */
+	/* assume encoded strings won't more than double no of chars */
 	char inbuf[MAX_PATH*2];
 	char *inbufp = inbuf;
 	Py_ssize_t insize = sizeof(inbuf);
diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index 7d0ed06..a4d3964 100644
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ PySequence_Fast(PyObject *v, const char *m)
 
 /* Iterate over seq.  Result depends on the operation:
    PY_ITERSEARCH_COUNT:	 -1 if error, else # of times obj appears in seq.
-   PY_ITERSEARCH_INDEX:	 0-based index of first occurence of obj in seq;
+   PY_ITERSEARCH_INDEX:	 0-based index of first occurrence of obj in seq;
 	set ValueError and return -1 if none found; also return -1 on error.
    Py_ITERSEARCH_CONTAINS:  return 1 if obj in seq, else 0; -1 on error.
 */
diff --git a/Objects/listsort.txt b/Objects/listsort.txt
index 9226984..31a5445 100644
--- a/Objects/listsort.txt
+++ b/Objects/listsort.txt
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ Stability constrains permissible merging patterns.  For example, if we have
     A:10000  B:20000  C:10000
 
 we dare not merge A with C first, because if A, B and C happen to contain
-a common element, it would get out of order wrt its occurence(s) in B.  The
+a common element, it would get out of order wrt its occurrence(s) in B.  The
 merging must be done as (A+B)+C or A+(B+C) instead.
 
 So merging is always done on two consecutive runs at a time, and in-place,
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 8583797..2cb71dc 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ static void
 none_dealloc(PyObject* ignore)
 {
 	/* This should never get called, but we also don't want to SEGV if
-	 * we accidently decref None out of existance.
+	 * we accidentally decref None out of existence.
 	 */
 	Py_FatalError("deallocating None");
 }
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index aeaa53b..e88c8c1 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -1927,7 +1927,7 @@ PyObject *PyUnicode_EncodeUTF7(const Py_UNICODE *s,
                 charsleft = (charsleft << 16) | ch;
                 /* out, charsleft, bitsleft = */ ENCODE(out, charsleft, bitsleft);
 
-                /* If the next character is special then we dont' need to terminate
+                /* If the next character is special then we don't need to terminate
                    the shift sequence. If the next character is not a BASE64 character
                    or '-' then the shift sequence will be terminated implicitly and we
                    don't have to insert a '-'. */
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/texi2html.py b/Tools/scripts/texi2html.py
index 9fd1f7b..86229f2 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/texi2html.py
+++ b/Tools/scripts/texi2html.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 # rpyron 2002-05-07
 # Robert Pyron <rpyron@alum.mit.edu>
 # 1. BUGFIX: In function makefile(), strip blanks from the nodename.
-#    This is necesary to match the behavior of parser.makeref() and
+#    This is necessary to match the behavior of parser.makeref() and
 #    parser.do_node().
 # 2. BUGFIX fixed KeyError in end_ifset (well, I may have just made
 #    it go away, rather than fix it)