fix spelling

Makefile

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ update_webmeta:
 	git cm "Updated web meta data."
 
 homepage: update_webmeta
-# relase website
+# release website
 	$(MAKE) -C doc/web release
 
 tag:

doc/install.txt

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Now install the application.
    b) Installation as a normal user
       
       Run ``python setup.py install --home $HOME``. Note that you have
-      to adjust your PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables, eg. by
+      to adjust your PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables, e.g. by
       adding the commands ``export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib/python`` and
       ``export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin`` to your shell configuration
       file.

doc/patool.1

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ of helper applications. Can be given multiple times to increase
 the output even more.
 .TP
 \fB\-\-non\-interactive\fP
-Try to prevent any interactive user input (ie. prompting for passwords
+Try to prevent any interactive user input (i.e. prompting for passwords
 or for overwriting duplicate files). Use this option with care since
 overwriting files or ignoring password prompts could lead to unintended
 consequences.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The original archive will never be removed.
 .IP "\(bu" 4
 Files outside the output directory will never be created. This relies on
 archive program options to prevent unpacking of files with an absolute
-path name (eg. \fB\-\-no\-absolute\-filenames\fP for \fBcpio(1)\fP).
+path name (e.g. \fB\-\-no\-absolute\-filenames\fP for \fBcpio(1)\fP).
 .PP
 The following commands are available.
 .SS extract
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ not smaller, the archive is left unchanged.
 .SS formats
 \fBpatool\fP \fBformats\fP
 .PP
-Show all supported archive formats (ie. which helper applications
+Show all supported archive formats (i.e. which helper applications
 are available).
 .SH HELP OPTION
 Specifying the help option displays help for patool itself, or a

patool

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ def create_argparser():
         epilog=epilog, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
     parser.add_argument('--verbose', '-v', action='count', default=0, dest='verbosity', help="verbose operation; can be given multiple times")
     parser.add_argument('--non-interactive', dest='interactive', default=True, action='store_false',
-        help="don't query for user input (ie. passwords or when overwriting duplicate files); use with care since overwriting files or ignoring passwords could be unintended")
+        help="don't query for user input (i.e. passwords or when overwriting duplicate files); use with care since overwriting files or ignoring passwords could be unintended")
     subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(help='the archive command; type "patool COMMAND -h" for command-specific help', dest='command')
     # extract
     parser_extract = subparsers.add_parser('extract', help='extract one or more archives')

patoolib/__init__.py

@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ def check_archive_format (format, compression):
     if format not in ArchiveFormats:
         raise util.PatoolError("unknown archive format `%s'" % format)
     if compression is not None and compression not in ArchiveCompressions:
-        raise util.PatoolError("unkonwn archive compression `%s'" % compression)
+        raise util.PatoolError("unknown archive compression `%s'" % compression)
 
 
 def find_archive_program (format, command, program=None, password=None):
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ def _extract_archive(archive, verbosity=0, interactive=True, outdir=None,
         cmdlist = get_archive_cmdlist(archive, compression, program, verbosity, interactive, outdir, password=password)
         if cmdlist:
             # an empty command list means the get_archive_cmdlist() function
-            # already handled the command (eg. when it's a builtin Python
+            # already handled the command (e.g. when it's a builtin Python
             # function)
             run_archive_cmdlist(cmdlist, verbosity=verbosity)
         if do_cleanup_outdir:
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ def _create_archive(archive, filenames, verbosity=0, interactive=True,
     cmdlist = get_archive_cmdlist(archive, compression, program, verbosity, interactive, filenames, password=password)
     if cmdlist:
         # an empty command list means the get_archive_cmdlist() function
-        # already handled the command (eg. when it's a builtin Python
+        # already handled the command (e.g. when it's a builtin Python
         # function)
         run_archive_cmdlist(cmdlist, verbosity=verbosity)
     if origarchive:
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ def _handle_archive(archive, command, verbosity=0, interactive=True,
     cmdlist = get_archive_cmdlist(archive, compression, program, verbosity, interactive, password=password)
     if cmdlist:
         # an empty command list means the get_archive_cmdlist() function
-        # already handled the command (eg. when it's a builtin Python
+        # already handled the command (e.g. when it's a builtin Python
         # function)
         run_archive_cmdlist(cmdlist, verbosity=verbosity)
 
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ def get_archive_cmdlist_func (program, command, format):
         module = importlib.import_module(modulename, __name__)
     except ImportError as msg:
         raise util.PatoolError(msg)
-    # get archive handler function (eg. patoolib.programs.star.extract_tar)
+    # get archive handler function (e.g. patoolib.programs.star.extract_tar)
     try:
         archive_cmdlist_func = getattr(module, '%s_%s' % (command, format))
         def check_for_password_before_cmdlist_func_call(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ def _recompress_archive(archive, verbosity=0, interactive=True, password=None):
     """Try to recompress an archive to smaller size."""
     format, compression = get_archive_format(archive)
     if compression:
-        # only recompress the compression itself (eg. for .tar.xz)
+        # only recompress the compression itself (e.g. for .tar.xz)
         format = compression
     tmpdir = util.tmpdir()
     tmpdir2 = util.tmpdir()

patoolib/programs/p7zip.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def extract_7z(archive, compression, cmd, verbosity, interactive, outdir, passwo
     return cmdlist
 
 def extract_7z_singlefile(archive, compression, cmd, verbosity, interactive, outdir, password=None):
-    """Extract a singlefile archive (eg. gzip or bzip2) with '7z e'.
+    """Extract a singlefile archive (e.g. gzip or bzip2) with '7z e'.
     This makes sure a single file and no subdirectories are created,
     which would cause errors with patool repack."""
     cmdlist = [cmd, 'e']

patoolib/util.py

@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ def tmpfile (dir=None, prefix="temp", suffix=None):
 
 def shell_quote (value):
     """Quote all shell metacharacters in given string value with strong
-    (ie. single) quotes, handling the single quote especially."""
+    (i.e. single) quotes, handling the single quote especially."""
     if os.name == 'nt':
         return shell_quote_nt(value)
     return "'%s'" % value.replace("'", r"'\''")
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ def strlist_with_or (alist):
 
 def is_same_file (filename1, filename2):
     """Check if filename1 and filename2 point to the same file object.
-    There can be false negatives, ie. the result is False, but it is
+    There can be false negatives, i.e. the result is False, but it is
     the same file anyway. Reason is that network filesystems can create
     different paths to the same physical file.
     """

setup.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def cnormpath (path):
 
 release_ro = re.compile(r"\(released (.+)\)")
 def get_release_date ():
-    """Parse and return relase date as string from doc/changelog.txt."""
+    """Parse and return release date as string from doc/changelog.txt."""
     fname = os.path.join("doc", "changelog.txt")
     release_date = "unknown"
     with open(fname) as fd:

tests/archives/test_tar.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class TestTar (ArchiveTest):
         self.archive_commands('t.tar.lzma')
 
     # even though clzip would support extracting .lz files, the
-    # file(1) --uncompress command does not use it for achive detection
+    # file(1) --uncompress command does not use it for archive detection
     @needs_program(program)
     @needs_program('lzip')
     def test_tar_lzip (self):
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class TestTar (ArchiveTest):
     #    self.archive_commands('t.tar.lzma.foo', format="tar", compression="lzma")
 
     # even though clzip would support extracting .lz files, the
-    # file(1) --uncompress command does not use it for achive detection
+    # file(1) --uncompress command does not use it for archive detection
     @needs_program('lzip')
     @needs_program('file')
     @needs_codec(program, 'lzip')