Fix typos in comments and docstrings (#302)

Author: seisman

.pylintrc

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ confidence=
 # can either give multiple identifiers separated by comma (,) or put this
 # option multiple times (only on the command line, not in the configuration
 # file where it should appear only once).You can also use "--disable=all" to
-# disable everything first and then reenable specific checks. For example, if
+# disable everything first and then re-enable specific checks. For example, if
 # you want to run only the similarities checker, you can use "--disable=all
 # --enable=similarities". If you want to run only the classes checker, but have
 # no Warning level messages displayed, use"--disable=all --enable=classes

.travis.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # We use miniconda for Python so don't need any Python specific tools
 language: generic
 
-# Use the container builds so we don't need sudo priviledges
+# Use the container builds so we don't need sudo privileges
 sudo: false
 
 cache:

pygmt/_version.py

@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, run_command=run_command):
         # TAG-NUM-gHEX
         mo = re.search(r"^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$", git_describe)
         if not mo:
-            # unparseable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
             pieces["error"] = "unable to parse git-describe output: '%s'" % describe_out
             return pieces
 

pygmt/base_plotting.py

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ def grdcontour(self, grid, **kwargs):
             - Specify a fixed annotation interval ``annot_int`` or a
               single annotation level ``+[annot_int]``
             - Disable all annotation  with  ``'-'``
-            - Optional label modifers can be specifed as a single string
+            - Optional label modifiers can be specified as a single string
               ``'[annot_int]+e'``  or with a list of options
               ``([annot_int], 'e', 'f10p', 'gred')``.
         L : str or list of 2 ints

pygmt/datasets/earth_relief.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def load_earth_relief(resolution="60m"):
     grid.attrs["units"] = "meters"
     grid.attrs["vertical_datum"] = "EMG96"
     grid.attrs["horizontal_datum"] = "WGS84"
-    # Remove the actual range because it get's outdated when indexing the grid, which
+    # Remove the actual range because it gets outdated when indexing the grid, which
     # causes problems when exporting it to netCDF for usage on the command-line.
     grid.attrs.pop("actual_range")
     for coord in grid.coords:

pygmt/helpers/decorators.py

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def fmt_docstring(module_func):
         filler_text["aliases"] = "\n".join(aliases)
 
     for marker, text in COMMON_OPTIONS.items():
-        # Remove the identation from the multiline strings so that it doesn't
+        # Remove the indentation from the multiline strings so that it doesn't
         # mess up the original docstring
         filler_text[marker] = textwrap.dedent(text)
 

versioneer.py

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
   `setup.cfg`, and `tox.ini`. Projects like these produce multiple PyPI
   distributions (and upload multiple independently-installable tarballs).
 * Source trees whose main purpose is to contain a C library, but which also
-  provide bindings to Python (and perhaps other langauges) in subdirectories.
+  provide bindings to Python (and perhaps other languages) in subdirectories.
 
 Versioneer will look for `.git` in parent directories, and most operations
 should get the right version string. However `pip` and `setuptools` have bugs
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, run_command=run_command):
         # TAG-NUM-gHEX
         mo = re.search(r'^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$', git_describe)
         if not mo:
-            # unparseable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
             pieces["error"] = ("unable to parse git-describe output: '%%s'"
                                %% describe_out)
             return pieces
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, run_command=run_command):
         # TAG-NUM-gHEX
         mo = re.search(r'^(.+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)$', git_describe)
         if not mo:
-            # unparseable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
+            # unparsable. Maybe git-describe is misbehaving?
             pieces["error"] = ("unable to parse git-describe output: '%s'"
                                % describe_out)
             return pieces