Spelling and minor changes (#12122)

doc/en/announce/release-2.0.0.rst

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ New Features
 - new "-q" option which decreases verbosity and prints a more
   nose/unittest-style "dot" output.
 
-- many many more detailed improvements details
+- many, many, more detailed improvements details
 
 Fixes
 -----------------------
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Important Notes
     in conftest.py files.  They will cause nothing special.
   - removed support for calling the pre-1.0 collection API of "run()" and "join"
   - removed reading option values from conftest.py files or env variables.
-    This can now be done much much better and easier through the ini-file
+    This can now be done much, much, better and easier through the ini-file
     mechanism and the "addopts" entry in particular.
   - removed the "disabled" attribute in test classes.  Use the skipping
     and pytestmark mechanism to skip or xfail a test class.

doc/en/announce/release-2.2.2.rst

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ pytest-2.2.2: bug fixes
 pytest-2.2.2 (updated to 2.2.3 to fix packaging issues) is a minor
 backward-compatible release of the versatile py.test testing tool.   It
 contains bug fixes and a few refinements particularly to reporting with
-"--collectonly", see below for betails.
+"--collectonly", see below for details.
 
 For general information see here:
 

doc/en/announce/release-2.4.0.rst

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Bug fixes:
   partially failed (finalizers would not always be called before)
 
 - fix issue320 - fix class scope for fixtures when mixed with
-  module-level functions.  Thanks Anatloy Bubenkoff.
+  module-level functions.  Thanks Anatoly Bubenkoff.
 
 - you can specify "-q" or "-qq" to get different levels of "quieter"
   reporting (thanks Katarzyna Jachim)

doc/en/announce/release-2.5.0.rst

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ holger krekel
   Thanks Ralph Schmitt for the precise failure example.
 
 - fix issue244 by implementing special index for parameters to only use
-  indices for paramentrized test ids
+  indices for parametrized test ids
 
 - fix issue287 by running all finalizers but saving the exception
   from the first failing finalizer and re-raising it so teardown will

doc/en/announce/release-2.6.0.rst

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ holger krekel
 - cleanup setup.py a bit and specify supported versions. Thanks Jurko
   Gospodnetic for the PR.
 
-- change XPASS colour to yellow rather then red when tests are run
+- change XPASS colour to yellow rather than red when tests are run
   with -v.
 
 - fix issue473: work around mock putting an unbound method into a class

doc/en/announce/release-2.7.0.rst

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ holger krekel
   github.  See https://pytest.org/en/stable/contributing.html .
   Thanks to Anatoly for pushing and initial work on this.
 
-- fix issue650: new option ``--docttest-ignore-import-errors`` which
+- fix issue650: new option ``--doctest-ignore-import-errors`` which
   will turn import errors in doctests into skips.  Thanks Charles Cloud
   for the complete PR.
 

doc/en/announce/sprint2016.rst

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ place on 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th and 25th. On the 23rd we took a break
 day for some hot hiking in the Black Forest.
 
 Sprint activity was organised heavily around pairing, with plenty of group
-discusssions to take advantage of the high bandwidth, and lightning talks
+discussions to take advantage of the high bandwidth, and lightning talks
 as well.
 
 

doc/en/changelog.rst

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ Improvements
 - `#11311 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/11311>`_: When using ``--override-ini`` for paths in invocations without a configuration file defined, the current working directory is used
   as the relative directory.
 
-  Previoulsy this would raise an :class:`AssertionError`.
+  Previously this would raise an :class:`AssertionError`.
 
 
 - `#11475 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/11475>`_: :ref:`--import-mode=importlib <import-mode-importlib>` now tries to import modules using the standard import mechanism (but still without changing :py:data:`sys.path`), falling back to importing modules directly only if that fails.
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ Deprecations
   ``__init__`` method, they should take ``**kwargs``. See
   :ref:`uncooperative-constructors-deprecated` for details.
 
-  Note that a deprection warning is only emitted when there is a conflict in the
+  Note that a deprecation warning is only emitted when there is a conflict in the
   arguments pytest expected to pass. This deprecation was already part of pytest
   7.0.0rc1 but wasn't documented.
 
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ Breaking Changes
 - `#7259 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7259>`_: The :ref:`Node.reportinfo() <non-python tests>` function first return value type has been expanded from `py.path.local | str` to `os.PathLike[str] | str`.
 
   Most plugins which refer to `reportinfo()` only define it as part of a custom :class:`pytest.Item` implementation.
-  Since `py.path.local` is an `os.PathLike[str]`, these plugins are unaffacted.
+  Since `py.path.local` is an `os.PathLike[str]`, these plugins are unaffected.
 
   Plugins and users which call `reportinfo()`, use the first return value and interact with it as a `py.path.local`, would need to adjust by calling `py.path.local(fspath)`.
   Although preferably, avoid the legacy `py.path.local` and use `pathlib.Path`, or use `item.location` or `item.path`, instead.
@@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ Bug Fixes
   the ``tmp_path``/``tmpdir`` fixture). Now the directories are created with
   private permissions.
 
-  pytest used to silently use a pre-existing ``/tmp/pytest-of-<username>`` directory,
+  pytest used to silently use a preexisting ``/tmp/pytest-of-<username>`` directory,
   even if owned by another user. This means another user could pre-create such a
   directory and gain control of another user's temporary directory. Now such a
   condition results in an error.
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ Features
   also changes ``sys.modules`` as a side-effect), which works but has a number of drawbacks, like requiring test modules
   that don't live in packages to have unique names (as they need to reside under a unique name in ``sys.modules``).
 
-  ``--import-mode=importlib`` uses more fine grained import mechanisms from ``importlib`` which don't
+  ``--import-mode=importlib`` uses more fine-grained import mechanisms from ``importlib`` which don't
   require pytest to change ``sys.path`` or ``sys.modules`` at all, eliminating much of the drawbacks
   of the previous mode.
 
@@ -2705,7 +2705,7 @@ Improvements
 ------------
 
 - :issue:`4375`: The ``pytest`` command now suppresses the ``BrokenPipeError`` error message that
-  is printed to stderr when the output of ``pytest`` is piped and and the pipe is
+  is printed to stderr when the output of ``pytest`` is piped and the pipe is
   closed by the piped-to program (common examples are ``less`` and ``head``).
 
 
@@ -3007,7 +3007,7 @@ Breaking Changes
   This hook has been marked as deprecated and not been even called by pytest for over 10 years now.
 
 
-- :issue:`6673`: Reversed / fix meaning of "+/-" in error diffs.  "-" means that sth. expected is missing in the result and "+" means that there are unexpected extras in the result.
+- :issue:`6673`: Reversed / fix meaning of "+/-" in error diffs.  "-" means that something expected is missing in the result and "+" means that there are unexpected extras in the result.
 
 
 - :issue:`6737`: The ``cached_result`` attribute of ``FixtureDef`` is now set to ``None`` when
@@ -4612,7 +4612,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 Improved Documentation
 ----------------------
 
-- :issue:`4974`: Update docs for ``pytest_cmdline_parse`` hook to note availability liminations
+- :issue:`4974`: Update docs for ``pytest_cmdline_parse`` hook to note availability limitations
 
 
 
@@ -6470,7 +6470,7 @@ Features
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
 
-- Fix hanging pexpect test on MacOS by using flush() instead of wait().
+- Fix hanging pexpect test on macOS by using flush() instead of wait().
   (:issue:`2022`)
 
 - Fix restoring Python state after in-process pytest runs with the
@@ -6518,7 +6518,7 @@ Trivial/Internal Changes
 ------------------------
 
 - Show a simple and easy error when keyword expressions trigger a syntax error
-  (for example, ``"-k foo and import"`` will show an error that you can not use
+  (for example, ``"-k foo and import"`` will show an error that you cannot use
   the ``import`` keyword in expressions). (:issue:`2953`)
 
 - Change parametrized automatic test id generation to use the ``__name__``
@@ -8294,7 +8294,7 @@ time or change existing behaviors in order to make them less surprising/more use
   one will also have a "reprec" attribute with the recorded events/reports.
 
 - fix monkeypatch.setattr("x.y", raising=False) to actually not raise
-  if "y" is not a pre-existing attribute. Thanks Florian Bruhin.
+  if "y" is not a preexisting attribute. Thanks Florian Bruhin.
 
 - fix issue741: make running output from testdir.run copy/pasteable
   Thanks Bruno Oliveira.
@@ -8350,7 +8350,7 @@ time or change existing behaviors in order to make them less surprising/more use
 
 - fix issue854: autouse yield_fixtures defined as class members of
   unittest.TestCase subclasses now work as expected.
-  Thannks xmo-odoo for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+  Thanks xmo-odoo for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
 
 - fix issue833: --fixtures now shows all fixtures of collected test files, instead of just the
   fixtures declared on the first one.
@@ -8454,7 +8454,7 @@ time or change existing behaviors in order to make them less surprising/more use
   github.  See https://pytest.org/en/stable/contributing.html .
   Thanks to Anatoly for pushing and initial work on this.
 
-- fix issue650: new option ``--docttest-ignore-import-errors`` which
+- fix issue650: new option ``--doctest-ignore-import-errors`` which
   will turn import errors in doctests into skips.  Thanks Charles Cloud
   for the complete PR.
 
@@ -8642,7 +8642,7 @@ time or change existing behaviors in order to make them less surprising/more use
 - cleanup setup.py a bit and specify supported versions. Thanks Jurko
   Gospodnetic for the PR.
 
-- change XPASS colour to yellow rather then red when tests are run
+- change XPASS colour to yellow rather than red when tests are run
   with -v.
 
 - fix issue473: work around mock putting an unbound method into a class
@@ -8815,15 +8815,15 @@ time or change existing behaviors in order to make them less surprising/more use
   Thanks Ralph Schmitt for the precise failure example.
 
 - fix issue244 by implementing special index for parameters to only use
-  indices for paramentrized test ids
+  indices for parametrized test ids
 
 - fix issue287 by running all finalizers but saving the exception
   from the first failing finalizer and re-raising it so teardown will
   still have failed.  We reraise the first failing exception because
   it might be the cause for other finalizers to fail.
 
 - fix ordering when mock.patch or other standard decorator-wrappings
-  are used with test methods.  This fixues issue346 and should
+  are used with test methods.  This fixes issue346 and should
   help with random "xdist" collection failures.  Thanks to
   Ronny Pfannschmidt and Donald Stufft for helping to isolate it.
 
@@ -9080,7 +9080,7 @@ Bug fixes:
   partially failed (finalizers would not always be called before)
 
 - fix issue320 - fix class scope for fixtures when mixed with
-  module-level functions.  Thanks Anatloy Bubenkoff.
+  module-level functions.  Thanks Anatoly Bubenkoff.
 
 - you can specify "-q" or "-qq" to get different levels of "quieter"
   reporting (thanks Katarzyna Jachim)
@@ -9502,7 +9502,7 @@ Bug fixes:
   unexpected exceptions
 - fix issue47: timing output in junitxml for test cases is now correct
 - fix issue48: typo in MarkInfo repr leading to exception
-- fix issue49: avoid confusing error when initizaliation partially fails
+- fix issue49: avoid confusing error when initialization partially fails
 - fix issue44: env/username expansion for junitxml file path
 - show releaselevel information in test runs for pypy
 - reworked doc pages for better navigation and PDF generation
@@ -9627,7 +9627,7 @@ Bug fixes:
   collection-before-running semantics were not
   setup as with pytest 1.3.4.  Note, however, that
   the recommended and much cleaner way to do test
-  parametraization remains the "pytest_generate_tests"
+  parameterization remains the "pytest_generate_tests"
   mechanism, see the docs.
 
 2.0.0 (2010-11-25)

doc/en/deprecations.rst

@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Now :class:`~pytest.Class` collects the test methods directly.
 Most plugins which reference ``Instance`` do so in order to ignore or skip it,
 using a check such as ``if isinstance(node, Instance): return``.
 Such plugins should simply remove consideration of ``Instance`` on pytest>=7.
-However, to keep such uses working, a dummy type has been instanted in ``pytest.Instance`` and ``_pytest.python.Instance``,
+However, to keep such uses working, a dummy type has been instanced in ``pytest.Instance`` and ``_pytest.python.Instance``,
 and importing it emits a deprecation warning. This was removed in pytest 8.
 
 

doc/en/example/customdirectory/conftest.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def collect(self):
 
 @pytest.hookimpl
 def pytest_collect_directory(path, parent):
-    # Use our custom collector for directories containing a `mainfest.json` file.
+    # Use our custom collector for directories containing a `manifest.json` file.
     if path.joinpath("manifest.json").is_file():
         return ManifestDirectory.from_parent(parent=parent, path=path)
     # Otherwise fallback to the standard behavior.

doc/en/getting-started.rst

@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ Continue reading
 Check out additional pytest resources to help you customize tests for your unique workflow:
 
 * ":ref:`usage`" for command line invocation examples
-* ":ref:`existingtestsuite`" for working with pre-existing tests
+* ":ref:`existingtestsuite`" for working with preexisting tests
 * ":ref:`mark`" for information on the ``pytest.mark`` mechanism
 * ":ref:`fixtures`" for providing a functional baseline to your tests
 * ":ref:`plugins`" for managing and writing plugins

doc/en/naming20.rst

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ If you used older version of the ``py`` distribution (which
 included the py.test command line tool and Python name space)
 you accessed helpers and possibly collection classes through
 the ``py.test`` Python namespaces.  The new ``pytest``
-Python module flaty provides the same objects, following
+Python module flatly provides the same objects, following
 these renaming rules::
 
     py.test.XYZ          -> pytest.XYZ

doc/en/reference/fixtures.rst

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Built-in fixtures
         Store and retrieve values across pytest runs.
 
    :fixture:`doctest_namespace`
-        Provide a dict injected into the docstests namespace.
+        Provide a dict injected into the doctests namespace.
 
    :fixture:`monkeypatch`
        Temporarily modify classes, functions, dictionaries,

doc/en/reference/reference.rst

@@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ All the command-line flags can be obtained by running ``pytest --help``::
 
     general:
       -k EXPRESSION         Only run tests which match the given substring
-                            expression. An expression is a Python evaluatable
+                            expression. An expression is a Python evaluable
                             expression where all names are substring-matched
                             against test names and their parent classes.
                             Example: -k 'test_method or test_other' matches all

src/_pytest/_py/error.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def __str__(self) -> str:
     3: errno.ENOENT,
     17: errno.EEXIST,
     18: errno.EXDEV,
-    13: errno.EBUSY,  # empty cd drive, but ENOMEDIUM seems unavailiable
+    13: errno.EBUSY,  # empty cd drive, but ENOMEDIUM seems unavailable
     22: errno.ENOTDIR,
     20: errno.ENOTDIR,
     267: errno.ENOTDIR,

src/_pytest/_py/path.py

@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ def mtime(self) -> float:
     def copy(self, target, mode=False, stat=False):
         """Copy path to target.
 
-        If mode is True, will copy copy permission from path to target.
+        If mode is True, will copy permission from path to target.
         If stat is True, copy permission, last modification
         time, last access time, and flags from path to target.
         """
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ def chmod(self, mode, rec=0):
     def pypkgpath(self):
         """Return the Python package path by looking for the last
         directory upwards which still contains an __init__.py.
-        Return None if a pkgpath can not be determined.
+        Return None if a pkgpath cannot be determined.
         """
         pkgpath = None
         for parent in self.parts(reverse=True):

src/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ def _write_and_reset() -> None:
                 # multi-line assert with message
                 elif lineno in seen_lines:
                     lines[-1] = lines[-1][:offset]
-                # multi line assert with escapd newline before message
+                # multi line assert with escaped newline before message
                 else:
                     lines.append(line[:offset])
                 _write_and_reset()

src/_pytest/assertion/util.py

@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ def _diff_text(left: str, right: str, verbose: int = 0) -> List[str]:
 def _compare_eq_iterable(
     left: Iterable[Any],
     right: Iterable[Any],
-    highligher: _HighlightFunc,
+    highlighter: _HighlightFunc,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> List[str]:
     if verbose <= 0 and not running_on_ci():
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ def _compare_eq_iterable(
     # "right" is the expected base against which we compare "left",
     # see https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3333
     explanation.extend(
-        highligher(
+        highlighter(
             "\n".join(
                 line.rstrip()
                 for line in difflib.ndiff(right_formatting, left_formatting)

src/_pytest/cacheprovider.py

@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ def pytest_make_collect_report(
             # Sort any lf-paths to the beginning.
             lf_paths = self.lfplugin._last_failed_paths
 
-            # Use stable sort to priorize last failed.
+            # Use stable sort to prioritize last failed.
             def sort_key(node: Union[nodes.Item, nodes.Collector]) -> bool:
                 return node.path in lf_paths
 

src/_pytest/compat.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def iscoroutinefunction(func: object) -> bool:
     def syntax, and doesn't contain yield), or a function decorated with
     @asyncio.coroutine.
 
-    Note: copied and modified from Python 3.5's builtin couroutines.py to avoid
+    Note: copied and modified from Python 3.5's builtin coroutines.py to avoid
     importing asyncio directly, which in turns also initializes the "logging"
     module as a side-effect (see issue #8).
     """

src/_pytest/config/__init__.py

@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ def parse_hookimpl_opts(
         # (see issue #1073).
         if not name.startswith("pytest_"):
             return None
-        # Ignore names which can not be hooks.
+        # Ignore names which cannot be hooks.
         if name == "pytest_plugins":
             return None
 
@@ -574,8 +574,8 @@ def _set_initial_conftests(
         self._noconftest = noconftest
         self._using_pyargs = pyargs
         foundanchor = False
-        for intitial_path in args:
-            path = str(intitial_path)
+        for initial_path in args:
+            path = str(initial_path)
             # remove node-id syntax
             i = path.find("::")
             if i != -1: