.. cfunction:: char * PyOS_stricmp(char *s1, char *s2)
- Case insensitive comparsion of strings. The functions works almost
- identical to :cfunc:`strcmp` except that it ignores the case.
+ Case insensitive comparison of strings. The function works almost
+ identically to :cfunc:`strcmp` except that it ignores the case.
.. versionadded:: 2.6
.. cfunction:: char * PyOS_strnicmp(char *s1, char *s2, Py_ssize_t size)
- Case insensitive comparsion of strings. The functions works almost
- identical to :cfunc:`strncmp` except that it ignores the case.
+ Case insensitive comparison of strings. The function works almost
+ identically to :cfunc:`strncmp` except that it ignores the case.
.. versionadded:: 2.6
This chapter mentions a number of filenames that include an encoded Python
version number. These filenames are represented with the version number shown
- as ``XY``; in practive, ``'X'`` will be the major version number and ``'Y'``
+ as ``XY``; in practice, ``'X'`` will be the major version number and ``'Y'``
will be the minor version number of the Python release you're working with. For
example, if you are using Python 2.2.1, ``XY`` will actually be ``22``.
* To document when incompatible changes were introduced, and when they will be
--- or were --- made mandatory. This is a form of executable documentation, and
- can be inspected programatically via importing :mod:`__future__` and examining
+ can be inspected programmatically via importing :mod:`__future__` and examining
its contents.
Each statement in :file:`__future__.py` is of the form::
Send a ``QUIT`` command to the server and close the connection. This is the
"polite" way to close a connection, but it may raise an exception of the server
- reponds with an error to the ``QUIT`` command. This implies a call to the
+ responds with an error to the ``QUIT`` command. This implies a call to the
:meth:`close` method which renders the :class:`FTP` instance useless for
subsequent calls (see below).
or use in modern Python programming. They have been kept here to maintain
backwards compatibility with programs written for older versions of Python.
-Python programmers, trainers, students and bookwriters should feel free to
+Python programmers, trainers, students and book writers should feel free to
bypass these functions without concerns about missing something important.
This code is intended to be read, not executed. However, it does work
-- all you need to do to enable it is "import knee".
-(The name is a pun on the klunkier predecessor of this module, "ni".)
+(The name is a pun on the clunkier predecessor of this module, "ni".)
::
*********************
This chapter describes the current implementation of the Open Scripting
-Architecure (OSA, also commonly referred to as AppleScript) for Python, allowing
-you to control scriptable applications from your Python program, and with a
-fairly pythonic interface. Development on this set of modules has stopped, and a
-replacement is expected for Python 2.5.
+Architecture (OSA, also commonly referred to as AppleScript) for Python,
+allowing you to control scriptable applications from your Python program,
+and with a fairly pythonic interface. Development on this set of modules has
+stopped, and a replacement is expected for Python 2.5.
For a description of the various components of AppleScript and OSA, and to get
an understanding of the architecture and terminology, you should read Apple's
The ``'d'`` and ``'i'`` arguments used when creating ``num`` and ``arr`` are
typecodes of the kind used by the :mod:`array` module: ``'d'`` indicates a
- double precision float and ``'i'`` inidicates a signed integer. These shared
+ double precision float and ``'i'`` indicates a signed integer. These shared
objects will be process and thread safe.
For more flexibility in using shared memory one can use the
A bounded semaphore object: a clone of :class:`threading.BoundedSemaphore`.
- (On Mac OSX this is indistiguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because
+ (On Mac OSX this is indistinguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because
``sem_getvalue()`` is not implemented on that platform).
.. class:: Condition([lock])
.. note::
- Although it is posible to store a pointer in shared memory remember that this
- will refer to a location in the address space of a specific process.
+ Although it is possible to store a pointer in shared memory remember that
+ this will refer to a location in the address space of a specific process.
However, the pointer is quite likely to be invalid in the context of a second
process and trying to dereference the pointer from the second process may
cause a crash.
handler which sends output to :data:`sys.stderr` using format
``'[%(levelname)s/%(processName)s] %(message)s'``. (The logger allows use of
the non-standard ``'%(processName)s'`` format.) Message sent to this logger
- will not by default propogate to the root logger.
+ will not by default propagate to the root logger.
Note that on Windows child processes will only inherit the level of the
parent process's logger -- any other customization of the logger will not be
+-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Right Shift | ``a >> b`` | ``rshift(a, b)`` |
+-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
-| Sequence Repitition | ``seq * i`` | ``repeat(seq, i)`` |
+| Sequence Repetition | ``seq * i`` | ``repeat(seq, i)`` |
+-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Slice Assignment | ``seq[i:j] = values`` | ``setslice(seq, i, j, values)`` |
+-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
+---------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| :const:`KQ_EV_DISABLE` | Disablesevent |
+---------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
- | :const:`KQ_EV_ONESHOT` | Removes event after first occurence |
+ | :const:`KQ_EV_ONESHOT` | Removes event after first occurrence |
+---------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| :const:`KQ_EV_CLEAR` | Reset the state after an event is retrieved |
+---------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
+============================+============================================+
| :const:`KQ_NOTE_DELETE` | *unlink()* was called |
+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
- | :const:`KQ_NOTE_WRITE` | a write occured |
+ | :const:`KQ_NOTE_WRITE` | a write occurred |
+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
| :const:`KQ_NOTE_EXTEND` | the file was extended |
+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
.. method:: isdisjoint(other)
Return True if the set has no elements in common with *other*. Sets are
- disjoint if and only if their interesection is the empty set.
+ disjoint if and only if their intersection is the empty set.
.. versionadded:: 2.6
"noses "
-Which is subsitituted into the string, yielding::
+Which is substituted into the string, yielding::
"A man with two noses "
.. \ulink{FileEntry}{http://tix.sourceforge.net/dist/current/demos/samples/FileEnt.tcl}
-Hierachical ListBox
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Hierarchical ListBox
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. class:: HList()
... left(10)
...
>>> for _ in range(8):
- ... left(45); fd(2) # a regular octogon
+ ... left(45); fd(2) # a regular octagon
Animation control
:param delay: positive integer
Set or return the drawing *delay* in milliseconds. (This is approximately
- the time interval between two consecutived canvas updates.) The longer the
+ the time interval between two consecutive canvas updates.) The longer the
drawing delay, the slower the animation.
Optional argument:
obtain the HTTP proxy's URL.
This example replaces the default :class:`ProxyHandler` with one that uses
-programatically-supplied proxy URLs, and adds proxy authorization support with
+programmatically-supplied proxy URLs, and adds proxy authorization support with
:class:`ProxyBasicAuthHandler`. ::
proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://www.example.com:3128/'})
from wsgiref.validate import validator
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
- # Our callable object which is intentionally not compilant to the
+ # Our callable object which is intentionally not compliant to the
# standard, so the validator is going to break
def simple_app(environ, start_response):
status = '200 OK' # HTTP Status
try:
proxy.add(2, 5)
except xmlrpclib.Fault, err:
- print "A fault occured"
+ print "A fault occurred"
print "Fault code: %d" % err.faultCode
print "Fault string: %s" % err.faultString
try:
proxy.some_method()
except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, err:
- print "A protocol error occured"
+ print "A protocol error occurred"
print "URL: %s" % err.url
print "HTTP/HTTPS headers: %s" % err.headers
print "Error code: %d" % err.errcode
performance trade-offs.
The :mod:`array` module provides an :class:`array()` object that is like a list
-that stores only homogenous data and stores it more compactly. The following
+that stores only homogeneous data and stores it more compactly. The following
example shows an array of numbers stored as two byte unsigned binary numbers
(typecode ``"H"``) rather than the usual 16 bytes per entry for regular lists of
python int objects::
startup.
You can also make all ``.py`` scripts execute with :program:`pythonw.exe`,
-setting this through the usual facilites, for example (might require
+setting this through the usual facilities, for example (might require
administrative rights):
#. Launch a command prompt.
The `PyWin32 <http://python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/>`_ module by Mark Hammond
is a collection of modules for advanced Windows-specific support. This includes
-utilites for:
+utilities for:
* `Component Object Model <http://www.microsoft.com/com/>`_ (COM)
* Win32 API calls
.. XXX I think this still needs help
:mod:`multiprocessing` makes it easy to distribute work over multiple processes.
-Its API is similiar to that of :mod:`threading`. For example::
+Its API is similar to that of :mod:`threading`. For example::
from multiprocessing import Process
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