Corrections for a/an in code comments and documentation

vadmium · vadmium · commit 4c35964b7645 · 2016-05-08T13:53:41.000Z
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
 
 * an ISO 8859 codeset
 
-* a Microsoft Windows code page, which is typically derived from a 8859 codeset,
+* a Microsoft Windows code page, which is typically derived from an 8859 codeset,
   but replaces control characters with additional graphic characters
 
 * an IBM EBCDIC code page
diff --git a/Include/pythonrun.h b/Include/pythonrun.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ PyAPI_DATA(PyThreadState*) _PyOS_ReadlineTState;
 
 /* Stack size, in "pointers" (so we get extra safety margins
    on 64-bit platforms).  On a 32-bit platform, this translates
-   to a 8k margin. */
+   to an 8k margin. */
 #define PYOS_STACK_MARGIN 2048
 
 #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(MS_WIN64) && defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1300
diff --git a/Lib/pickletools.py b/Lib/pickletools.py
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ def read_bytes8(f):
               reader=read_bytes8,
               doc="""A counted bytes string.
 
-              The first argument is a 8-byte little-endian unsigned int giving
+              The first argument is an 8-byte little-endian unsigned int giving
               the number of bytes, and the second argument is that many bytes.
               """)
 
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ def read_unicodestring8(f):
                     reader=read_unicodestring8,
                     doc="""A counted Unicode string.
 
-                    The first argument is a 8-byte little-endian signed int
+                    The first argument is an 8-byte little-endian signed int
                     giving the number of bytes in the string, and the second
                     argument-- the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode string --
                     contains that many bytes.
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, code, arg,
       proto=4,
       doc="""Push a Python bytes object.
 
-      There are two arguments:  the first is a 8-byte unsigned int giving
+      There are two arguments:  the first is an 8-byte unsigned int giving
       the number of bytes in the string, and the second is that many bytes,
       which are taken literally as the string content.
       """),
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, code, arg,
       proto=4,
       doc="""Push a Python Unicode string object.
 
-      There are two arguments:  the first is a 8-byte little-endian signed int
+      There are two arguments:  the first is an 8-byte little-endian signed int
       giving the number of bytes in the string.  The second is that many
       bytes, and is the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode string.
       """),
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ def getint_event(s):
         # time field: "valid for events that contain a time field"
         # width field: Configure, ConfigureRequest, Create, ResizeRequest,
         # and Expose events only
-        # x field: "valid for events that contain a x field"
+        # x field: "valid for events that contain an x field"
         # y field: "valid for events that contain a y field"
         # keysym as decimal: KeyPress and KeyRelease events only
         # x_root, y_root fields: ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, KeyPress,
diff --git a/Mac/README b/Mac/README
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ values are available:
 
 To build a universal binary that includes a 64-bit architecture, you must build
 on a system running OS X 10.5 or later.  The ``all`` and ``64-bit`` flavors can
-only be built with an 10.5 SDK because ``ppc64`` support was only included with
+only be built with a 10.5 SDK because ``ppc64`` support was only included with
 OS X 10.5.  Although legacy ``ppc`` support was included with Xcode 3 on OS X
 10.6, it was removed in Xcode 4, versions of which were released on OS X 10.6
 and which is the standard for OS X 10.7.  To summarize, the
diff --git a/Modules/arraymodule.c b/Modules/arraymodule.c
@@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ array__array_reconstructor_impl(PyModuleDef *module, PyTypeObject *arraytype,
          * that fits better. This may result in an array with narrower
          * or wider elements.
          *
-         * For example, if a 32-bit machine pickles a L-code array of
+         * For example, if a 32-bit machine pickles an L-code array of
          * unsigned longs, then the array will be unpickled by 64-bit
          * machine as an I-code array of unsigned ints.
          *
diff --git a/Modules/audioop.c b/Modules/audioop.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ fbound(double val, double minval, double maxval)
  */
 #define BIAS 0x84   /* define the add-in bias for 16 bit samples */
 #define CLIP 32635
-#define SIGN_BIT        (0x80)          /* Sign bit for a A-law byte. */
+#define SIGN_BIT        (0x80)          /* Sign bit for an A-law byte. */
 #define QUANT_MASK      (0xf)           /* Quantization field mask. */
 #define SEG_SHIFT       (4)             /* Left shift for segment number. */
 #define SEG_MASK        (0x70)          /* Segment field mask. */
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static PyInt16 _st_alaw2linear16[256] = {
 };
 
 /*
- * linear2alaw() accepts an 13-bit signed integer and encodes it as A-law data
+ * linear2alaw() accepts a 13-bit signed integer and encodes it as A-law data
  * stored in an unsigned char.  This function should only be called with
  * the data shifted such that it only contains information in the lower
  * 13-bits.
diff --git a/PC/pyconfig.h b/PC/pyconfig.h
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED to find out.  Also support MS_NO_COREDLL for b/w compat */
 #	define SIZEOF_FPOS_T 8
 #	define SIZEOF_HKEY 4
 #	define SIZEOF_SIZE_T 4
-	/* MS VS2005 changes time_t to an 64-bit type on all platforms */
+	/* MS VS2005 changes time_t to a 64-bit type on all platforms */
 #	if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1400
 #	define SIZEOF_TIME_T 8
 #	else
diff --git a/Python/formatter_unicode.c b/Python/formatter_unicode.c
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ format_float_internal(PyObject *value,
     else if (type == 'r')
         type = 'g';
 
-    /* Cast "type", because if we're in unicode we need to pass a
+    /* Cast "type", because if we're in unicode we need to pass an
        8-bit char. This is safe, because we've restricted what "type"
        can be. */
     buf = PyOS_double_to_string(val, (char)type, precision, flags,
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ format_complex_internal(PyObject *value,
     else if (type == 'r')
         type = 'g';
 
-    /* Cast "type", because if we're in unicode we need to pass a
+    /* Cast "type", because if we're in unicode we need to pass an
        8-bit char. This is safe, because we've restricted what "type"
        can be. */
     re_buf = PyOS_double_to_string(re, (char)type, precision, flags,

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`@@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ array__array_reconstructor_impl(PyModuleDef module, PyTypeObject arraytype,`
`2090`	`2090`	`* that fits better. This may result in an array with narrower`
`2091`	`2091`	`* or wider elements.`
`2092`	`2092`	`*`
`2093`		`- * For example, if a 32-bit machine pickles a L-code array of`
	`2093`	`+ * For example, if a 32-bit machine pickles an L-code array of`
`2094`	`2094`	`* unsigned longs, then the array will be unpickled by 64-bit`
`2095`	`2095`	`* machine as an I-code array of unsigned ints.`
`2096`	`2096`	`*`