Correct “an” → “a” with “Unicode”, “user”, “UTF”, etc

This affects documentation, code comments, and a debugging messages.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index f964f5f..a8de7f9 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -2237,7 +2237,7 @@ Library
   attribute which allows setting custom per-pickler reduction functions.
   Patch by sbt.
 
-- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
+- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given a unicode
   string.  Patch by Guilherme Gonçalves.
 
 - Issue #13550: Remove the debug machinery from the threading module: remove
@@ -8304,7 +8304,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
 
 - Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
-  library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
+  library. This means, for example, that opening a UTF-16 text file in
   append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
   empty.
 
@@ -9328,7 +9328,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
   Gabriel Genellina.
 
-- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
+- Issue #4574: reading a UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
   boundary.
 
 - Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
@@ -9929,7 +9929,7 @@ Extension Modules
   exploitation of poor argument checking.
 
 - bsddb code updated to version 4.7.3pre2. This code is the same than
-  Python 2.6 one, since the intention is to keep an unified 2.x/3.x codebase.
+  Python 2.6 one, since the intention is to keep a unified 2.x/3.x codebase.
   The Python code is automatically translated using "2to3". Please, do not
   update this code in Python 3.0 by hand. Update the 2.6 one and then
   do "2to3".
@@ -18936,7 +18936,7 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter
 
 - 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
index 37dc453..1248664 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ Core and Builtins
   static type in some cases.
 
 - Issue #15859: PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and
-  PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not an
+  PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not a
   Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was already the case on
   platforms other than Windows. Patch written by Campbell Barton.
 
@@ -3318,7 +3318,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #21226: Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject
   (and friends).
 
-- Issue #21398: Fix an unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation
+- Issue #21398: Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation
   contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.
 
 - Issue #16531: ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now accept
@@ -6322,7 +6322,7 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #17173: Remove uses of locale-dependent C functions (isalpha() etc.)
   in the interpreter.
 
-- Issue #17137: When an Unicode string is resized, the internal wide character
+- Issue #17137: When a Unicode string is resized, the internal wide character
   string (wstr) format is now cleared.
 
 - Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of