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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/howto/webservers.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/io.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/pty.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/classes.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst | 4 |
9 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/webservers.rst b/Doc/howto/webservers.rst index 62c9124..4613c76 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 204b204..fdacabb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ 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 @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ 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 9327f98..f4eafc4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ This module also defines two 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:: 2.7 diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 48c7bcb..939126e 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ 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 2cc1e60..0b7d7bc 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ A more verbose version of this snippet shows the flow explicitly:: print row[i], 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:: >>> zip(*mat) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index cb3009b..29c7a66 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 34d984a..b1bc522 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ 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 8cd5d0a..c0c7da3 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 |