it's 'rather than'; reported by James Bateman on docs@

diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst
index 16b7681661ae7b66d9431a1630d784dbdfffbaf2..5470a10833699a34a40027b2554b537b07c798b7 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/curses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ the following methods:
 
    .. note::
 
-      A *character* means a C character (an ASCII code), rather then a Python
+      A *character* means a C character (an ASCII code), rather than a Python
       character (a string of length 1). (This note is true whenever the
       documentation mentions a character.) The built-in :func:`ord` is handy for
       conveying strings to codes.