Minor docstring typos

diff --git a/Modules/selectmodule.c b/Modules/selectmodule.c
index 9a71f4734ecd2623b6bfa6322879b8d454f73f1c..de38fe60e510c14a19f284211d1da2a899403b3d 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/selectmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/selectmodule.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ poll_register(pollObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(poll_modify_doc,
 "modify(fd, eventmask) -> None\n\n\
-Modify an already register file descriptor.\n\
+Modify an already registered file descriptor.\n\
 fd -- either an integer, or an object with a fileno() method returning an\n\
       int.\n\
 events -- an optional bitmask describing the type of events to check for");
@@ -918,10 +918,10 @@ pyepoll_register(pyEpoll_Object *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 PyDoc_STRVAR(pyepoll_register_doc,
 "register(fd[, eventmask]) -> bool\n\
 \n\
-Registers a new fd or modifies an already registered fd. register returns\n\
+Registers a new fd or modifies an already registered fd. register() returns\n\
 True if a new fd was registered or False if the event mask for fd was modified.\n\
-fd is the target file descriptor of the operation\n\
-events is a bit set composed of the various EPOLL constants, the default\n\
+fd is the target file descriptor of the operation.\n\
+events is a bit set composed of the various EPOLL constants; the default\n\
 is EPOLL_IN | EPOLL_OUT | EPOLL_PRI.\n\
 \n\
 The epoll interface supports all file descriptors that support poll.");
@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ that are ready.\n\
 \n\
 *** IMPORTANT NOTICE ***\n\
 On Windows and OpenVMS, only sockets are supported; on Unix, all file\n\
-descriptors.");
+descriptors can be used.");
 
 static PyMethodDef select_methods[] = {
        {"select",      select_select,  METH_VARARGS,   select_doc},