https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9ec7ddd8267b1246a760092127987d4dfcf02d5c
commit: 9ec7ddd8267b1246a760092127987d4dfcf02d5c
branch: 3.12
author: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>
committer: JelleZijlstra <[email protected]>
date: 2024-05-02T06:01:06Z
summary:

[3.12] docs: typo: tiny grammar change: "pointed by" -> "pointed to by" 
(GH-118411) (#118504)

(cherry picked from commit a6b610a94bee0e4436aee2825c14f05ec2f22f75)

Co-authored-by: Andrew Zipperer <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Andrew-Zipperer <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/os.rst
M Doc/library/shutil.rst
M Lib/pathlib.py
M Lib/shutil.py

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 3c295b2e8a1d10..d2f18cd86ffe08 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ as internal buffering of data.
    If *offset_src* is None, then *src* is read from the current position;
    respectively for *offset_dst*.
 
-   In Linux kernel older than 5.3, the files pointed by *src* and *dst*
+   In Linux kernel older than 5.3, the files pointed to by *src* and *dst*
    must reside in the same filesystem, otherwise an :exc:`OSError` is
    raised with :attr:`~OSError.errno` set to :const:`errno.EXDEV`.
 
@@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@ or `the MSDN 
<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z0kc8e3z.aspx>`_ on Windo
    At least one of the file descriptors must refer to a pipe. If *offset_src*
    is None, then *src* is read from the current position; respectively for
    *offset_dst*. The offset associated to the file descriptor that refers to a
-   pipe must be ``None``. The files pointed by *src* and *dst* must reside in
+   pipe must be ``None``. The files pointed to by *src* and *dst* must reside 
in
    the same filesystem, otherwise an :exc:`OSError` is raised with
    :attr:`~OSError.errno` set to :const:`errno.EXDEV`.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index c9d367cb7e7ff8..6ef185d2178925 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Directory and files operations
    be copied as far as the platform allows; if false or omitted, the contents
    and metadata of the linked files are copied to the new tree.
 
-   When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
+   When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed to by the symlink doesn't
    exist, an exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
    an :exc:`Error` exception at the end of the copy process.
    You can set the optional *ignore_dangling_symlinks* flag to true if you
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ Directory and files operations
    called.  If no *cmd* would be called, return ``None``.
 
    *mode* is a permission mask passed to :func:`os.access`, by default
-   determining if the file exists and executable.
+   determining if the file exists and is executable.
 
    When no *path* is specified, the results of :func:`os.environ` are used,
    returning either the "PATH" value or a fallback of :data:`os.defpath`.
diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index bd5a096f9e3609..65ff0ee1977f80 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ def samefile(self, other_path):
     def open(self, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None,
              errors=None, newline=None):
         """
-        Open the file pointed by this path and return a file object, as
+        Open the file pointed to by this path and return a file object, as
         the built-in open() function does.
         """
         if "b" not in mode:
diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 3a2b6be39b7e9e..deb9d3b867156e 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, 
copy_function=copy2,
     If the optional symlinks flag is true, symbolic links in the
     source tree result in symbolic links in the destination tree; if
     it is false, the contents of the files pointed to by symbolic
-    links are copied. If the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
+    links are copied. If the file pointed to by the symlink doesn't
     exist, an exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
     an Error exception at the end of the copy process.
 

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