fix instances of consecutive articles (closes #23221)

Patch by Karan Goel.

5 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index 0924c9b..d5cd8e3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ def create_tree(base_dir, files, mode=0o777, verbose=1, dry_run=0):
     """Create all the empty directories under 'base_dir' needed to put 'files'
     there.
 
-    'base_dir' is just the a name of a directory which doesn't necessarily
+    'base_dir' is just the name of a directory which doesn't necessarily
     exist yet; 'files' is a list of filenames to be interpreted relative to
     'base_dir'.  'base_dir' + the directory portion of every file in 'files'
     will be created if it doesn't already exist.  'mode', 'verbose' and
diff --git a/Lib/http/cookiejar.py b/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
index 2ddd523..7e4982f 100644
--- a/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
+++ b/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@ class FileCookieJar(CookieJar):
 
 
 def lwp_cookie_str(cookie):
-    """Return string representation of Cookie in an the LWP cookie file format.
+    """Return string representation of Cookie in the LWP cookie file format.
 
     Actually, the format is extended a bit -- see module docstring.
 
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py b/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py
index 9afc2fa..2e47887 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_exitfunc.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class FixExitfunc(fixer_base.BaseFix):
         self.sys_import = None
 
     def transform(self, node, results):
-        # First, find a the sys import. We'll just hope it's global scope.
+        # First, find the sys import. We'll just hope it's global scope.
         if "sys_import" in results:
             if self.sys_import is None:
                 self.sys_import = results["sys_import"]
diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index 22d7ad5..8efd760 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ if hasattr(_socket.socket, "share"):
     def fromshare(info):
         """ fromshare(info) -> socket object
 
-        Create a socket object from a the bytes object returned by
+        Create a socket object from the bytes object returned by
         socket.share(pid).
         """
         return socket(0, 0, 0, info)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
index 98ccfe4..1164f3f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ class TestOptionalsChoices(ParserTestCase):
 
 
 class TestOptionalsRequired(ParserTestCase):
-    """Tests the an optional action that is required"""
+    """Tests an optional action that is required"""
 
     argument_signatures = [
         Sig('-x', type=int, required=True),