Typo fixes

diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index 4f4459cf411d5821e2df28ed2ac81ffb6777c4c3..e24f37b84756be4780bcc997c04f82a2c2868b27 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ Test cases
                assertLessEqual(first, second, msg=None)
 
       Test that *first* is respectively >, >=, < or <= than *second* depending
-      on the method name.  If not, the test will fail with the nice explanation
+      on the method name.  If not, the test will fail with an explanation
       or with the explanation given by *msg*::
 
          >>> self.assertGreaterEqual(3, 4)
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ Test cases
    .. method:: assertIn(first, second, msg=None)
                assertNotIn(first, second, msg=None)
 
-      Tests that *first* is or is not in *second* with a nice explanitory error
+      Tests that *first* is or is not in *second* with an explanatory error
       message as appropriate.
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ Test cases
 
    .. method:: assertDictContainsSubset(expected, actual, msg=None)
 
-      Tests whether the key value pairs in dictionary *actual* are a
+      Tests whether the key/value pairs in dictionary *actual* are a
       superset of those in *expected*.  If not, an error message listing
       the missing keys and mismatched values is generated.
 
@@ -969,12 +969,12 @@ Test cases
       been asked to compare are exactly *typeobj* (not subclasses).
       *function* must take two positional arguments and a third msg=None
       keyword argument just as :meth:`assertEqual` does.  It must raise
-      self.failureException when inequality between the first two
+      ``self.failureException`` when inequality between the first two
       parameters is detected.
 
       One good use of custom equality checking functions for a type
-      is to raise self.failureException with an error message useful
-      for debugging the by explaining the inequalities in detail.
+      is to raise ``self.failureException`` with an error message useful
+      for debugging the problem by explaining the inequalities in detail.
 
       .. versionadded:: 2.7
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 78b37cc797bb82b070a840931b5fc85f7d0c15f2..5fcfab942a2d569c7eea459b880f9069469cf265 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Library
   mailbox.MH.get_message().
 
 - Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
-  so that users can install custonm handlers/etc.
+  so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
 
 - Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
   object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs