[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-14 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: OK, fixed the two typos in r80067, r80068. Please open a new issue for further fixes, this one gets a bit confusing :) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5341

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-14 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Raymond didn’t want the quote characters changed, sorry if I failed to channel him. I’ll port the “builtin” typo fixes to the other branches and let this report closed. Thanks for the guidance. --

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-12 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Hi r79951 fixes “simplies” and add the typo “specifyication” Muphry’s Law wink. Updated my patch to remove that and add this. Regards -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16894/functools-typos-pep8.diff

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-12 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file16855/functools-typos-pep8.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5341 ___

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-12 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file16894/functools-typos-pep8.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5341 ___

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-12 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: I saw the author of functools on the chatroom and asked for feedback. Summary: * Rewrapping, whitespace changes, quote changes and other minor PEP 8 stuff is not worth the trouble it creates (eats time without improving Python’s quality, and

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-04-10 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Hello spelling and doc people (I hope it’s okay to use this bug as umbrella instead of opening a myriad bugs for typos.) Attached patch fixes small things in functools module and docs: - Typos: “simplies” does not exist, “fills-in” needs no

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Georg can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we generally only rewrap lines when we change the text for some other reason. My observation was that Georg re-wraps doc text to 79 chars, so that's what I've been doing. PEP 8 really

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-07 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: David is correct, rewrapping while editing is intrusive enough. The docs should be wrapped at 79/80 characters. The reason that most files have longer lines is that the latex to rest converter tool had a flaw in the wrapping code that I didn't

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: rewrap lines when we change the text for some other reason. Doesn’t that make harder to review the real changes when they are mixed with rewrapping? PEP 8 really only applies to source files, the docs are (at least currently) Georg's

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-07 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: rewrap lines when we change the text for some other reason. Doesn’t that make harder to review the real changes when they are mixed with rewrapping? That's true. I wouldn't do it in patches I mean someone else to review. But many times it's

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: No, I meant demense (I even looked up the spelling). The word is related to domain, but has a somewhat more precise shading of meaning :) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thanks for the new word. (I checked with my local dictd but not on the Intertubes, should have). Having designated active maintainers for modules and areas is indeed great. Cheers -- ___ Python

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-06 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Hello again And now for something completely different: more builtin/built-in/built in fixes. I hope it’s okay to edit Misc/HISTORY and old Misc/NEWS entries. Note that I fixed two unrelated typos that I noticed near “builtin” uses. Some day

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-06 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Here is the path that rewraps lines longer than 80 characters. Note that it is possible than some lines were unnecessarily rewrapped; I’m not really sure whether my editor displays the characters count or the index of the next character. Sorry

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-03-06 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: I grepped for “built-in” in Doc and found very few misuses. Patch attached. Some lines needed rewrapping, I made another patch for this to ease reviewing. Cheers -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16478/doc.diff

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-02-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: I should have seen this when changing one use of “builtin”. Applies only to py3k, since the glossary for trunk does not mention the `next` function. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16176/typo.diff

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-02-06 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: Thanks, committed as r78024, r78025, respectively. -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5341 ___

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-02-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Additional note to help reviewing: I changed occurrences of the form “builtin x” to “built-in function x” not because I think the noun “builtin” is incorrect, as you may guess from my first message in this thread, but because it seemed more

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-02-04 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Hello I fixed a few remaining misuses of “builtin” in the source. There is some diff noise due to reformatting paragraphs where the addition of the hyphen caused the line to get over 80 characters. Note that I didn’t check the use of

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-02-04 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16130/fix-builtin_3.2.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5341 ___

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2010-02-04 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- status: closed - open ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5341 ___ ___

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2009-12-20 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Short summary from a discussion on #python-dev: - verb form: “This function is built in.” - adjective form: “``str`` is a built-in function” - noun form (not mainstream English, but usual in programming contexts): “``repr`` is a builtin”, “prefer

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks, Georg. And yes, I was indeed wondering why I found so few wayward apostrophes! Applied in r69846, r69847. I'm not sure whether it's worth backporting these to 2.6 and 3.0. Please do not change builtin to built-in. In a python

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2009-02-21 Thread Mark Dickinson
New submission from Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: Here's a patch that represents the result of grepping through the source for some of my favo(u)rite spelling errors. Georg, I reali(z/s)e that most of these fixes are outside the Doc/ directory, but are you interested in taking a look at

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2009-02-21 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: I reviewed the patch and found nothing wrong. (BTW, if you noticed the almost-total lack of its-it's errors, it's because I fixed all of them some time ago :) built-in is fine. About AE/BE: I think we had a consensus somewhere that we have no

[issue5341] A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source

2009-02-21 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Please do not change builtin to built-in. In a python context, it reads fine as one word. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org