Fix some typoes before adding typing for checker registering

5 files changed, 14 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/examples/custom.py b/examples/custom.py
index bd9797e2a..c7429f629 100644
--- a/examples/custom.py
+++ b/examples/custom.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from pylint.interfaces import IAstroidChecker
 # This is our checker class.
 # Checkers should always inherit from `BaseChecker`.
 class MyAstroidChecker(BaseChecker):
-    """Add class member attributes to the class locals dictionary."""
+    """Add class member attributes to the class local's dictionary."""
 
     # This class variable defines the type of checker that we are implementing.
     # In this case, we are implementing an AST checker.
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ class MyAstroidChecker(BaseChecker):
     options = (
         # Each option definition has a name which is used on the command line
         # and in config files, and a dictionary of arguments
-        # (similar to those to those to
-        # argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument).
+        # (similar to argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument).
         (
             "store-locals-indicator",
             {
@@ -48,10 +47,7 @@ class MyAstroidChecker(BaseChecker):
     def visit_call(self, node: nodes.Call) -> None:
         """Called when a :class:`.nodes.Call` node is visited.
 
-        See :mod:`astroid` for the description of available nodes.
-
-        :param node: The node to check.
-        """
+        See :mod:`astroid` for the description of available nodes."""
         if not (
             isinstance(node.func, nodes.Attribute)
             and isinstance(node.func.expr, nodes.Name)
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/classes/special_methods_checker.py b/pylint/checkers/classes/special_methods_checker.py
index adfb7b3f1..51c52b3ae 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/classes/special_methods_checker.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/classes/special_methods_checker.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def _safe_infer_call_result(node, caller, context=None):
     Safely infer the return value of a function.
 
     Returns None if inference failed or if there is some ambiguity (more than
-    one node has been inferred). Otherwise returns inferred value.
+    one node has been inferred). Otherwise, returns inferred value.
     """
     try:
         inferit = node.infer_call_result(caller, context=context)
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/refactoring/implicit_booleaness_checker.py b/pylint/checkers/refactoring/implicit_booleaness_checker.py
index 02e5d8257..29277e3a2 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/refactoring/implicit_booleaness_checker.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/refactoring/implicit_booleaness_checker.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ class ImplicitBooleanessChecker(checkers.BaseChecker):
             node.left
         ) or utils.is_empty_dict_literal(node.left)
 
-        # Check both left hand side and right hand side for literals
+        # Check both left-hand side and right-hand side for literals
         for operator, comparator in node.ops:
             is_right_empty_literal = utils.is_base_container(
                 comparator
diff --git a/pylint/interfaces.py b/pylint/interfaces.py
index eef47449c..8fd61589f 100644
--- a/pylint/interfaces.py
+++ b/pylint/interfaces.py
@@ -64,9 +64,7 @@ def implements(
     obj: "BaseChecker",
     interface: Union[Type["Interface"], Tuple[Type["Interface"], ...]],
 ) -> bool:
-    """Return whether the given object (maybe an instance or class) implements
-    the interface.
-    """
+    """Does the given object (maybe an instance or class) implements the interface."""
     kimplements = getattr(obj, "__implements__", ())
     if not isinstance(kimplements, (list, tuple)):
         kimplements = (kimplements,)
@@ -74,9 +72,7 @@ def implements(
 
 
 class IChecker(Interface):
-    """This is a base interface, not designed to be used elsewhere than for
-    sub interfaces definition.
-    """
+    """Base interface, not to be used elsewhere than for sub interfaces definition."""
 
     def open(self):
         """called before visiting project (i.e. set of modules)"""
@@ -86,12 +82,12 @@ class IChecker(Interface):
 
 
 class IRawChecker(IChecker):
-    """interface for checker which need to parse the raw file"""
+    """Interface for checker which need to parse the raw file"""
 
     def process_module(self, node: nodes.Module) -> None:
         """process a module
 
-        the module's content is accessible via ``astroid.stream``
+        The module's content is accessible via ``astroid.stream``
         """
 
 
@@ -101,7 +97,7 @@ class ITokenChecker(IChecker):
     def process_tokens(self, tokens):
         """Process a module.
 
-        tokens is a list of all source code tokens in the file.
+        Tokens is a list of all source code tokens in the file.
         """
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_check_parallel.py b/tests/test_check_parallel.py
index d1b5a6489..01fc352dc 100644
--- a/tests/test_check_parallel.py
+++ b/tests/test_check_parallel.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class ParallelTestChecker(BaseChecker, MapReduceMixin):
 
     On non-parallel builds: it works on all the files in a single run.
 
-    On parallel builds: lint.parallel calls ``open`` once per file.
+    On parallel builds: ``lint.parallel`` calls ``open`` once per file.
 
     So if files are treated by separate processes, no messages will be
     raised from the individual process, all messages will be raised
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ class TestCheckParallel:
         """Tests original basic types of checker works as expected in -jN
 
         This means that a sequential checker should return the same data for a given
-        file-stream irrespective of whether its run in -j1 or -jN
+        file-stream irrespective of whether it's run in -j1 or -jN
         """
         linter = PyLinter(reporter=Reporter())
 
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ class TestCheckParallel:
 
         file_infos = _gen_file_datas(num_files)
 
-        # Loop for single-proc and mult-proc so we can ensure the same linter-config
+        # Loop for single-proc and mult-proc, so we can ensure the same linter-config
         for do_single_proc in range(2):
             linter = PyLinter(reporter=Reporter())
 
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ class TestCheckParallel:
         # with the number of files.
         file_infos = _gen_file_datas(num_files)
 
-        # Loop for single-proc and mult-proc so we can ensure the same linter-config
+        # Loop for single-proc and mult-proc, so we can ensure the same linter-config
         for do_single_proc in range(2):
             linter = PyLinter(reporter=Reporter())