[3.12] docs: typo: tiny grammar change: "pointed by" -> "pointed to by" (GH-118411) (#118504)

(cherry picked from commit a6b610a)

Co-authored-by: Andrew Zipperer <47086307+zipperer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew-Zipperer <atzipperer@gmail.com>

Author: 3 people

Doc/library/os.rst

@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ as internal buffering of data.
    If *offset_src* is None, then *src* is read from the current position;
    respectively for *offset_dst*.
 
-   In Linux kernel older than 5.3, the files pointed by *src* and *dst*
+   In Linux kernel older than 5.3, the files pointed to by *src* and *dst*
    must reside in the same filesystem, otherwise an :exc:`OSError` is
    raised with :attr:`~OSError.errno` set to :const:`errno.EXDEV`.
 
@@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@ or `the MSDN <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z0kc8e3z.aspx>`_ on Windo
    At least one of the file descriptors must refer to a pipe. If *offset_src*
    is None, then *src* is read from the current position; respectively for
    *offset_dst*. The offset associated to the file descriptor that refers to a
-   pipe must be ``None``. The files pointed by *src* and *dst* must reside in
+   pipe must be ``None``. The files pointed to by *src* and *dst* must reside in
    the same filesystem, otherwise an :exc:`OSError` is raised with
    :attr:`~OSError.errno` set to :const:`errno.EXDEV`.
 

Doc/library/shutil.rst

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Directory and files operations
    be copied as far as the platform allows; if false or omitted, the contents
    and metadata of the linked files are copied to the new tree.
 
-   When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
+   When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed to by the symlink doesn't
    exist, an exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
    an :exc:`Error` exception at the end of the copy process.
    You can set the optional *ignore_dangling_symlinks* flag to true if you
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ Directory and files operations
    called.  If no *cmd* would be called, return ``None``.
 
    *mode* is a permission mask passed to :func:`os.access`, by default
-   determining if the file exists and executable.
+   determining if the file exists and is executable.
 
    When no *path* is specified, the results of :func:`os.environ` are used,
    returning either the "PATH" value or a fallback of :data:`os.defpath`.

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ def samefile(self, other_path):
     def open(self, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None,
              errors=None, newline=None):
         """
-        Open the file pointed by this path and return a file object, as
+        Open the file pointed to by this path and return a file object, as
         the built-in open() function does.
         """
         if "b" not in mode:

Lib/shutil.py

@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, copy_function=copy2,
     If the optional symlinks flag is true, symbolic links in the
     source tree result in symbolic links in the destination tree; if
     it is false, the contents of the files pointed to by symbolic
-    links are copied. If the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
+    links are copied. If the file pointed to by the symlink doesn't
     exist, an exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
     an Error exception at the end of the copy process.