A lot more typo fixes by Ori Avtalion.

25 files changed, 35 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/long.rst b/Doc/c-api/long.rst
index 6a4ede7a4d..49a5e6f766 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/long.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/long.rst
@@ -174,6 +174,6 @@ Long Integer Objects
    .. versionadded:: 1.5.2
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.5
-      For values outside 0..LONG_MAX, both signed and unsigned integers are acccepted.
+      For values outside 0..LONG_MAX, both signed and unsigned integers are accepted.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst b/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst
index e2e3145016..7d66db2f02 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Buffer Protocol
 
 .. cfunction:: int PyObject_AsCharBuffer(PyObject *obj, const char **buffer, Py_ssize_t *buffer_len)
 
-   Returns a pointer to a read-only memory location useable as character- based
+   Returns a pointer to a read-only memory location usable as character-based
    input.  The *obj* argument must support the single-segment character buffer
    interface.  On success, returns ``0``, sets *buffer* to the memory location and
    *buffer_len* to the buffer length.  Returns ``-1`` and sets a :exc:`TypeError`
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
index 87c8b86e15..e89ecf70fa 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ The following three fields only exist if the
    The :attr:`tp_traverse` pointer is used by the garbage collector to detect
    reference cycles. A typical implementation of a :attr:`tp_traverse` function
    simply calls :cfunc:`Py_VISIT` on each of the instance's members that are Python
-   objects.  For exampe, this is function :cfunc:`local_traverse` from the
+   objects.  For example, this is function :cfunc:`local_traverse` from the
    :mod:`thread` extension module::
 
       static int
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ Number Object Structures
             binaryfunc nb_and;
             binaryfunc nb_xor;
             binaryfunc nb_or;
-            coercion nb_coerce;       /* Used by the coerce() funtion */
+            coercion nb_coerce;       /* Used by the coerce() function */
             unaryfunc nb_int;
             unaryfunc nb_long;
             unaryfunc nb_float;
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
index f6c28d3be8..2ebc9860f1 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Distutils configuration files.  Various options and sections in the
 |                                          | or  --- & :option:`maintainer` and           |
 |                                          | :option:`maintainer_email`                   |
 +------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| Copyright                                | :option:`licence`                            |
+| Copyright                                | :option:`license`                            |
 +------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
 | Url                                      | :option:`url`                                |
 +------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst b/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst
index f0f886bcc9..8242012816 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ the web interface.
 The .pypirc file
 ================
 
-The format of the :file:`.pypirc` file is formated as follows::
+The format of the :file:`.pypirc` file is as follows::
 
    [server-login]
    repository: <repository-url>
    username: <username>
    password: <password>
 
-*repository* can be ommitted and defaults to ``http://www.python.org/pypi``.
+*repository* can be omitted and defaults to ``http://www.python.org/pypi``.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/howto/advocacy.rst b/Doc/howto/advocacy.rst
index 407bf9fa79..8b5b11c2da 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/advocacy.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/advocacy.rst
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ language, but it boils down to three conditions:
   product in any way.
 
 * If something goes wrong, you can't sue for damages.  Practically all software
-  licences contain this condition.
+  licenses contain this condition.
 
 Notice that you don't have to provide source code for anything that contains
 Python or is built with it.  Also, the Python interpreter and accompanying
diff --git a/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst b/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
index a35075313d..e1325f88a2 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ from module import name1, name2
 This is a "don't" which is much weaker then the previous "don't"s but is still
 something you should not do if you don't have good reasons to do that. The
 reason it is usually bad idea is because you suddenly have an object which lives
-in two seperate namespaces. When the binding in one namespace changes, the
+in two separate namespaces. When the binding in one namespace changes, the
 binding in the other will not, so there will be a discrepancy between them. This
 happens when, for example, one module is reloaded, or changes the definition of
 a function at runtime.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
index b0b43c0373..5dea10e855 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ returns them in a tuple::
     itertools.izip(['a', 'b', 'c'], (1, 2, 3)) =>
       ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)
 
-It's similiar to the built-in :func:`zip` function, but doesn't construct an
+It's similar to the built-in :func:`zip` function, but doesn't construct an
 in-memory list and exhaust all the input iterators before returning; instead
 tuples are constructed and returned only if they're requested.  (The technical
 term for this behaviour is `lazy evaluation
diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
index dc05d3269a..0b8db59b08 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ thing to do - give it a nice long timeout (say a minute) unless you have good
 reason to do otherwise.
 
 In return, you will get three lists. They have the sockets that are actually
-readable, writable and in error. Each of these lists is a subset (possbily
+readable, writable and in error. Each of these lists is a subset (possibly
 empty) of the corresponding list you passed in. And if you put a socket in more
 than one input list, it will only be (at most) in one output list.
 
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ just means outbound network buffer space is available.)
 If you have a "server" socket, put it in the potential_readers list. If it comes
 out in the readable list, your ``accept`` will (almost certainly) work. If you
 have created a new socket to ``connect`` to someone else, put it in the
-ptoential_writers list. If it shows up in the writable list, you have a decent
+potential_writers list. If it shows up in the writable list, you have a decent
 chance that it has connected.
 
 One very nasty problem with ``select``: if somewhere in those input lists of
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index e3f431147d..c1d7622597 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | iso8859_3       | iso-8859-3, latin3, L3         | Esperanto, Maltese             |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| iso8859_4       | iso-8859-4, latin4, L4         | Baltic languagues              |
+| iso8859_4       | iso-8859-4, latin4, L4         | Baltic languages               |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | iso8859_5       | iso-8859-5, cyrillic           | Bulgarian, Byelorussian,       |
 |                 |                                | Macedonian, Russian, Serbian   |
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index 67b69a6f54..add16efd96 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ they add the ability to access fields by name instead of position index.
 .. function:: namedtuple(typename, fieldnames, [verbose])
 
    Returns a new tuple subclass named *typename*.  The new subclass is used to
-   create tuple-like objects that have fields accessable by attribute lookup as
+   create tuple-like objects that have fields accessible by attribute lookup as
    well as being indexable and iterable.  Instances of the subclass also have a
    helpful docstring (with typename and fieldnames) and a helpful :meth:`__repr__`
    method which lists the tuple contents in a ``name=value`` format.
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Example::
    >>> x, y = p                # unpack like a regular tuple
    >>> x, y
    (11, 22)
-   >>> p.x + p.y               # fields also accessable by name
+   >>> p.x + p.y               # fields also accessible by name
    33
    >>> p                       # readable __repr__ with a name=value style
    Point(x=11, y=22)
diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index 1fcbcf914a..2d2ae938bd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -1609,7 +1609,7 @@ of significant places in the coefficient.  For example, expressing
 original's two-place significance.
 
 If an application does not care about tracking significance, it is easy to
-remove the exponent and trailing zeroes, losing signficance, but keeping the
+remove the exponent and trailing zeroes, losing significance, but keeping the
 value unchanged::
 
     >>> def remove_exponent(d):
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 301139918a..23a0f22ecf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ can include messages from third-party modules.
 It is, of course, possible to log messages with different verbosity levels or to
 different destinations.  Support for writing log messages to files, HTTP
 GET/POST locations, email via SMTP, generic sockets, or OS-specific logging
-mechnisms are all supported by the standard module.  You can also create your
+mechanisms are all supported by the standard module.  You can also create your
 own log destination class if you have special requirements not met by any of the
 built-in classes.
 
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ destination.  Logger objects can add zero or more handler objects to themselves
 with an :func:`addHandler` method.  As an example scenario, an application may
 want to send all log messages to a log file, all log messages of error or higher
 to stdout, and all messages of critical to an email address.  This scenario
-requires three individual handlers where each hander is responsible for sending
+requires three individual handlers where each handler is responsible for sending
 messages of a specific severity to a specific location.
 
 The standard library includes quite a few handler types; this tutorial uses only
diff --git a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst
index 5192acb644..972ce70f56 100644
--- a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ the original. In the interest of compatibility, :class:`mbox` implements the
 original format, which is sometimes referred to as :dfn:`mboxo`. This means that
 the :mailheader:`Content-Length` header, if present, is ignored and that any
 occurrences of "From " at the beginning of a line in a message body are
-transformed to ">From " when storing the message, although occurences of ">From
+transformed to ">From " when storing the message, although occurrences of ">From
 " are not transformed to "From " when reading the message.
 
 Some :class:`Mailbox` methods implemented by :class:`mbox` deserve special
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ remarks:
 
 .. method:: MH.close()
 
-   :class:`MH` instances do not keep any open files, so this method is equivelant
+   :class:`MH` instances do not keep any open files, so this method is equivalent
    to :meth:`unlock`.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index f479397088..2ef2f0a80f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Unix Platforms
    version)`` which default to the given parameters in case the lookup fails.
 
    Note that this function has intimate knowledge of how different libc versions
-   add symbols to the executable is probably only useable for executables compiled
+   add symbols to the executable is probably only usable for executables compiled
    using :program:`gcc`.
 
    The file is read and scanned in chunks of *chunksize* bytes.
diff --git a/Doc/library/profile.rst b/Doc/library/profile.rst
index fe54da2fff..0b6883283b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/profile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/profile.rst
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ The :class:`Stats` Class
      non-parenthesized number repeats the cumulative time spent in the function
      at the right.
 
-   * With :mod:`cProfile`, each caller is preceeded by three numbers: the number of
+   * With :mod:`cProfile`, each caller is preceded by three numbers: the number of
      times this specific call was made, and the total and cumulative times spent in
      the current function while it was invoked by this specific caller.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index 07856d4c5b..3beed6c9cf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Bookkeeping functions:
    Change the internal state to one different from and likely far away from the
    current state.  *n* is a non-negative integer which is used to scramble the
    current state vector.  This is most useful in multi-threaded programs, in
-   conjuction with multiple instances of the :class:`Random` class:
+   conjunction with multiple instances of the :class:`Random` class:
    :meth:`setstate` or :meth:`seed` can be used to force all instances into the
    same internal state, and then :meth:`jumpahead` can be used to force the
    instances' states far apart.
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 5fd3dd5d8c..9f13d06b92 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ into a list with each nonempty line having its own entry::
    'Heather Albrecht 548.326.4584 919 Park Place']
 
 Finally, split each entry into a list with first name, last name, telephone
-number, and address.  We use the ``maxsplit`` paramater of :func:`split`
+number, and address.  We use the ``maxsplit`` parameter of :func:`split`
 because the address has spaces, our splitting pattern, in it::
 
    >>> [re.split(":? ", entry, 3) for entry in entries]
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ because the address has spaces, our splitting pattern, in it::
    ['Heather', 'Albrecht', '548.326.4584', '919 Park Place']]
 
 The ``:?`` pattern matches the colon after the last name, so that it does not
-occur in the result list.  With a ``maxsplit`` of ``4``, we could seperate the
+occur in the result list.  With a ``maxsplit`` of ``4``, we could separate the
 house number from the street name::
 
    >>> [re.split(":? ", entry, 4) for entry in entries]
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ in each word of a sentence except for the first and last characters::
 Finding all Adverbs
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-:func:`findall` matches *all* occurences of a pattern, not just the first
+:func:`findall` matches *all* occurrences of a pattern, not just the first
 one as :func:`search` does.  For example, if one was a writer and wanted to
 find all of the adverbs in some text, he or she might use :func:`findall` in
 the following manner::
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index ec4606601c..f2470066d3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -929,5 +929,5 @@ the interface::
    # receive a package
    print s.recvfrom(65565)
    
-   # disabled promiscous mode
+   # disabled promiscuous mode
    s.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_OFF)
diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
index 9a2a11a7dd..583e92465c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The primary entry point is a :term:`generator`:
 
 .. function:: generate_tokens(readline)
 
-   The :func:`generate_tokens` generator requires one argment, *readline*, which
+   The :func:`generate_tokens` generator requires one argument, *readline*, which
    must be a callable object which provides the same interface as the
    :meth:`readline` method of built-in file objects (see section
    :ref:`bltin-file-objects`).  Each call to the function should return one line of
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index 8eb19f3ede..d1d4b6b393 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ TreeBuilder Objects
 
 .. method:: TreeBuilder.close()
 
-   Flushes the parser buffers, and returns the toplevel documen element. Returns an
+   Flushes the parser buffers, and returns the toplevel document element. Returns an
    Element instance.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index 02ce783f5b..076c28446a 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ implementation details.
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
-.. [#] The exception is propogated to the invocation stack only if there is no
+.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack only if there is no
    :keyword:`finally` clause that negates the exception.
 
 .. [#] Currently, control "flows off the end" except in the case of an exception or the
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index 21bd750a3c..23958eee7d 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ generator function:
    generator, or raises :exc:`StopIteration` if the generator exits without
    yielding another value. When :meth:`send` is called to start the generator, it
    must be called with :const:`None` as the argument, because there is no
-   :keyword:`yield` expression that could receieve the value.
+   :keyword:`yield` expression that could receive the value.
 
 
 .. method:: generator.throw(type[, value[, traceback]])
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ there were no excess keyword arguments.
 
 If the syntax ``*expression`` appears in the function call, ``expression`` must
 evaluate to a sequence.  Elements from this sequence are treated as if they were
-additional positional arguments; if there are postional arguments *x1*,...,*xN*
+additional positional arguments; if there are positional arguments *x1*,...,*xN*
 , and ``expression`` evaluates to a sequence *y1*,...,*yM*, this is equivalent
 to a call with M+N positional arguments *x1*,...,*xN*,*y1*,...,*yM*.
 
diff --git a/Doc/reference/index.rst b/Doc/reference/index.rst
index a179d21e0d..18bf0537a9 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/index.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ write a Python extension module, and the :ref:`c-api-index` describes the
 interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail.
 
 .. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 3
+   :maxdepth: 2
 
    introduction.rst
    lexical_analysis.rst
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 8f31d402d0..3f89c03fe8 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ doing ``isinstance(obj, Number)``.
 Numbers are further divided into :class:`Exact` and :class:`Inexact`.
 Exact numbers can represent values precisely and operations never
 round off the results or introduce tiny errors that may break the
-communtativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may
+commutativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may
 perform such rounding or introduce small errors.  Integers, long
 integers, and rational numbers are exact, while floating-point 
 and complex numbers are inexact.
@@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   .. Issue 1534
 
 * Python's C API now includes two functions for case-insensitive string
-  comparisions, ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
+  comparisons, ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
   and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
   (Contributed by Christian Heimes.)