diff --git a/Doc/library/bz2.rst b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
index 7804c545054..bf8ebc0d742 100644
--- a/Doc/library/bz2.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ For other archive formats, see the :mod:`gzip`, :mod:`zipfile`, and
 Here is a summary of the features offered by the bz2 module:
 
 * :class:`BZ2File` class implements a complete file interface, including
-  :meth:`readline`, :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`writelines`, :meth:`seek`, etc;
+  :meth:`~BZ2File.readline`, :meth:`~BZ2File.readlines`,
+  :meth:`~BZ2File.writelines`, :meth:`~BZ2File.seek`, etc;
 
-* :class:`BZ2File` class implements emulated :meth:`seek` support;
+* :class:`BZ2File` class implements emulated :meth:`~BZ2File.seek` support;
 
 * :class:`BZ2File` class implements universal newline support;
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/traceback.rst b/Doc/library/traceback.rst
index 9c8c93f1884..15eaa6e0185 100644
--- a/Doc/library/traceback.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/traceback.rst
@@ -175,12 +175,12 @@ exception and traceback::
 
    try:
        lumberjack()
-   except:
-       exceptionType, exceptionValue, exceptionTraceback = sys.exc_info()
+   except IndexError:
+       exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
        print "*** print_tb:"
-       traceback.print_tb(exceptionTraceback, limit=1, file=sys.stdout)
+       traceback.print_tb(exc_traceback, limit=1, file=sys.stdout)
        print "*** print_exception:"
-       traceback.print_exception(exceptionType, exceptionValue, exceptionTraceback,
+       traceback.print_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback,
                                  limit=2, file=sys.stdout)
        print "*** print_exc:"
        traceback.print_exc()
@@ -189,13 +189,13 @@ exception and traceback::
        print formatted_lines[0]
        print formatted_lines[-1]
        print "*** format_exception:"
-       print repr(traceback.format_exception(exceptionType, exceptionValue,
-                                             exceptionTraceback))
+       print repr(traceback.format_exception(exc_type, exc_value,
+                                             exc_traceback))
        print "*** extract_tb:"
-       print repr(traceback.extract_tb(exceptionTraceback))
+       print repr(traceback.extract_tb(exc_traceback))
        print "*** format_tb:"
-       print repr(traceback.format_tb(exceptionTraceback))
-       print "*** tb_lineno:", traceback.tb_lineno(exceptionTraceback)
+       print repr(traceback.format_tb(exc_traceback))
+       print "*** tb_lineno:", exc_traceback.tb_lineno
 
 
 The output for the example would look similar to this::
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file.py b/Lib/test/test_file.py
index ed100c14b75..c5e5ea16df7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_file.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_file.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class OtherFileTests(unittest.TestCase):
         except ValueError, msg:
             if msg[0] != 0:
                 s = str(msg)
-                if s.find(TESTFN) != -1 or s.find(bad_mode) == -1:
+                if TESTFN in s or bad_mode not in s:
                     self.fail("bad error message for invalid mode: %s" % s)
             # if msg[0] == 0, we're probably on Windows where there may be
             # no obvious way to discover why open() failed.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_fileio.py b/Lib/test/test_fileio.py
index 0eea86b309e..d1b3751ef70 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_fileio.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_fileio.py
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class OtherFileTests(unittest.TestCase):
         except ValueError as msg:
             if msg.args[0] != 0:
                 s = str(msg)
-                if s.find(TESTFN) != -1 or s.find(bad_mode) == -1:
+                if TESTFN in s or bad_mode not in s:
                     self.fail("bad error message for invalid mode: %s" % s)
             # if msg.args[0] == 0, we're probably on Windows where there may be
             # no obvious way to discover why open() failed.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
index 16977a5495b..120c37cd743 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ class MinidomTest(unittest.TestCase):
         string1 = repr(el)
         string2 = str(el)
         self.confirm(string1 == string2)
-        self.confirm(string1.find("slash:abc") != -1)
+        self.confirm("slash:abc" in string1)
         dom.unlink()
 
     def testAttributeRepr(self):
diff --git a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
index e2c17e1c187..2ea1488a0d6 100644
--- a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
@@ -450,14 +450,14 @@ PyCursesWindow_AddStr(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
   if (use_attr == TRUE) {
     attr_old = getattrs(self->win);
-    wattrset(self->win,attr);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr);
   }
   if (use_xy == TRUE)
     rtn = mvwaddstr(self->win,y,x,str);
   else
     rtn = waddstr(self->win,str);
   if (use_attr == TRUE)
-    wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
   return PyCursesCheckERR(rtn, "addstr");
 }
 
@@ -499,14 +499,14 @@ PyCursesWindow_AddNStr(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
   if (use_attr == TRUE) {
     attr_old = getattrs(self->win);
-    wattrset(self->win,attr);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr);
   }
   if (use_xy == TRUE)
     rtn = mvwaddnstr(self->win,y,x,str,n);
   else
     rtn = waddnstr(self->win,str,n);
   if (use_attr == TRUE)
-    wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
   return PyCursesCheckERR(rtn, "addnstr");
 }
 
@@ -1140,14 +1140,14 @@ PyCursesWindow_InsStr(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
   if (use_attr == TRUE) {
     attr_old = getattrs(self->win);
-    wattrset(self->win,attr);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr);
   }
   if (use_xy == TRUE)
     rtn = mvwinsstr(self->win,y,x,str);
   else
     rtn = winsstr(self->win,str);
   if (use_attr == TRUE)
-    wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
   return PyCursesCheckERR(rtn, "insstr");
 }
 
@@ -1189,14 +1189,14 @@ PyCursesWindow_InsNStr(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
   if (use_attr == TRUE) {
     attr_old = getattrs(self->win);
-    wattrset(self->win,attr);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr);
   }
   if (use_xy == TRUE)
     rtn = mvwinsnstr(self->win,y,x,str,n);
   else
     rtn = winsnstr(self->win,str,n);
   if (use_attr == TRUE)
-    wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
+    (void)wattrset(self->win,attr_old);
   return PyCursesCheckERR(rtn, "insnstr");
 }
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7dd1fe8b222..bc40ec82cf0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ Installing multiple versions
 On Unix and Mac systems if you intend to install multiple versions of Python
 using the same installation prefix (--prefix argument to the configure
 script) you must take care that your primary python executable is not
-overwritten by the installation of a different versio.  All files and
+overwritten by the installation of a different version.  All files and
 directories installed using "make altinstall" contain the major and minor
 version and can thus live side-by-side.  "make install" also creates
 ${prefix}/bin/python which refers to ${prefix}/bin/pythonX.Y.  If you intend