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 This HOWTO is simply an introduction to writing text-mode programs
 with curses and Python. It doesn't attempt to be a complete guide to
-the curses API; for that, see the Python library guide's serction on
+the curses API; for that, see the Python library guide's section on
 ncurses, and the C manual pages for ncurses.  It will, however, give
 you the basic ideas.