@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def test_intresult(self):
         self.assertEqual(result, 21)
         self.assertEqual(type(result), int)
 
-        # You cannot assing character format codes as restype any longer
+        # You cannot assign character format codes as restype any longer
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, setattr, f, "restype", "i")
 
     def test_floatresult(self):
 
@@ -5710,7 +5710,7 @@ def _parse_format_specifier(format_spec, _localeconv=None):
 
 def _format_align(sign, body, spec):
     """Given an unpadded, non-aligned numeric string 'body' and sign
-    string 'sign', add padding and aligment conforming to the given
+    string 'sign', add padding and alignment conforming to the given
     format specifier dictionary 'spec' (as produced by
     parse_format_specifier).
 
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def __init__(self, _data, _subtype='octet-stream',
                  _encoder=encoders.encode_base64, **_params):
         """Create an application/* type MIME document.
 
-        _data is a string containing the raw applicatoin data.
+        _data is a string containing the raw application data.
 
         _subtype is the MIME content type subtype, defaulting to
         'octet-stream'.
 
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ def _parse(self, fp):
             # Note: we unconditionally convert both msgids and msgstrs to
             # Unicode using the character encoding specified in the charset
             # parameter of the Content-Type header.  The gettext documentation
-            # strongly encourages msgids to be us-ascii, but some appliations
+            # strongly encourages msgids to be us-ascii, but some applications
             # require alternative encodings (e.g. Zope's ZCML and ZPT).  For
             # traditional gettext applications, the msgid conversion will
             # cause no problems since us-ascii should always be a subset of
 
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ def _send_output(self, message_body=None):
         del self._buffer[:]
         # If msg and message_body are sent in a single send() call,
         # it will avoid performance problems caused by the interaction
-        # between delayed ack and the Nagle algorithim.
+        # between delayed ack and the Nagle algorithm.
         if isinstance(message_body, bytes):
             msg += message_body
             message_body = None
 
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ def __init__(self, flist=None, filename=None, key=None, root=None):
         self.top = top = WindowList.ListedToplevel(root, menu=self.menubar)
         if flist:
             self.tkinter_vars = flist.vars
-            #self.top.instance_dict makes flist.inversedict avalable to
-            #configDialog.py so it can access all EditorWindow instaces
+            #self.top.instance_dict makes flist.inversedict available to
+            #configDialog.py so it can access all EditorWindow instances
             self.top.instance_dict = flist.inversedict
         else:
             self.tkinter_vars = {}  # keys: Tkinter event names
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ What's New in IDLEfork 0.8.1?
 - New tarball released as a result of the 'revitalisation' of the IDLEfork
   project. 
 
-- This release requires python 2.1 or better. Compatability with earlier
+- This release requires python 2.1 or better. Compatibility with earlier
   versions of python (especially ancient ones like 1.5x) is no longer a
   priority in IDLEfork development.
 
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ def _check_name(method):
     loader can handle.
 
     The first argument (self) must define _name which the second argument is
-    comapred against. If the comparison fails then ImportError is raised.
+    compared against. If the comparison fails then ImportError is raised.
 
     """
     def inner(self, name, *args, **kwargs):
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def __init__(self, host, port=NNTP_PORT, user=None, password=None,
 
         readermode is sometimes necessary if you are connecting to an
         NNTP server on the local machine and intend to call
-        reader-specific comamnds, such as `group'.  If you get
+        reader-specific commands, such as `group'.  If you get
         unexpected NNTPPermanentErrors, you might need to set
         readermode.
         """
 
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # file handles.
 
 # The point of this example is to show that sys.setrecursionlimit() is a
-# hack, and not a robust solution.  This example simply exercices a path
+# hack, and not a robust solution.  This example simply exercises a path
 # where it takes many C-level recursions, consuming a lot of stack
 # space, for each Python-level recursion.  So 1000 times this amount of
 # stack space may be too much for standard platforms already.