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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-11-21 10:40:51 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-11-21 10:40:51 (GMT)
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Fix minor typos.
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@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ Comparison of objects of the same type depends on the type:
program.
Comparison of objects of the differing types depends on whether either
-of the types provide explicit support for the comparison. Most numberic types
+of the types provide explicit support for the comparison. Most numeric types
can be compared with one another, but comparisons of :class:`float` and
:class:`Decimal` are not supported to avoid the inevitable confusion arising
from representation issues such as ``float('1.1')`` being inexactly represented
@@ -1058,8 +1058,8 @@ s`` evaluates to true if *x* is a member of *s*, and false otherwise. ``x not
in s`` returns the negation of ``x in s``. All built-in sequences and set types
support this as well as dictionary, for which :keyword:`in` tests whether a the
dictionary has a given key. For container types such as list, tuple, set,
-frozenset, dict, or collections.deque, the expression ``x in y`` equivalent to
-``any(x is e or x == e for val e in y)``.
+frozenset, dict, or collections.deque, the expression ``x in y`` is equivalent
+to ``any(x is e or x == e for val e in y)``.
For the string and bytes types, ``x in y`` is true if and only if *x* is a
substring of *y*. An equivalent test is ``y.find(x) != -1``. Empty strings are