Fix typos in comments and documentation (#4664)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: #4664

as the title suggests

Reviewed By: juancarpio27

Differential Revision: D86405491

fbshipit-source-id: b3b1e1bfffab02ef5da6f2ef8e95d5b67da83f7c

Author: Subhadeep Karan

faiss/impl/ResultHandler.h

@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ struct RangeSearchBlockResultHandler : BlockResultHandler<C, use_sel> {
         RangeSearchPartialResult* pres;
         // there is one RangeSearchPartialResult structure per j0
         // (= block of columns of the large distance matrix)
-        // it is a bit tricky to find the poper PartialResult structure
+        // it is a bit tricky to find the proper PartialResult structure
         // because the inner loop is on db not on queries.
 
         if (pr < j0s.size() && j0 == j0s[pr]) {

faiss/python/class_wrappers.py

@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ def replacement_vt_train(self, x):
         self.train_c(n, swig_ptr(x))
 
     replace_method(the_class, 'train', replacement_vt_train)
-    # apply is reserved in Pyton...
+    # apply is reserved in Python...
     the_class.apply_py = apply_method
     the_class.apply = apply_method
     replace_method(the_class, 'reverse_transform',
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ def replacement_train_inplace(self, x):
         The index must be trained before vectors can be added to it.
 
         This call WILL change the values in the input array, because
-        of two scaling proceduces being performed inplace.
+        of two scaling procedures being performed inplace.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ def handle_SearchParameters(the_class):
     """ this wrapper is to enable initializations of the form
     SearchParametersXX(a=3, b=SearchParamsYY)
     This also requires the enclosing class to keep a reference on the
-    sub-object, since the C++ code assumes the object ownwership is
+    sub-object, since the C++ code assumes the object ownership is
     handled externally.
     """
     the_class.original_init = the_class.__init__
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ def replacement_insert(self, codes, inserted=None):
     replace_method(the_class, 'insert', replacement_insert)
 
 ######################################################
-# Syntatic sugar for NeuralNet classes
+# Syntactic sugar for NeuralNet classes
 ######################################################
 
 
@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ def from_array(self, array, bias=None):
     the_class.from_torch = from_torch
 
 ######################################################
-# Syntatic sugar for QINCo and QINCoStep
+# Syntactic sugar for QINCo and QINCoStep
 ######################################################
 
 

faiss/python/extra_wrappers.py

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ def add_result(self, D, I):
     def add_result_subset(self, subset, D, I):
         """
         Add results for a subset of heaps.
-        D, I should hold resutls for all the subset
+        D, I should hold results for all the subset
         as a special case, if I is 1D, then all ids are assumed to be the same
         """
         nsubset, kd = D.shape
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ def assign(self, x):
 
 
 ###########################################
-# Packing and unpacking bistrings
+# Packing and unpacking bitstrings
 ###########################################
 
 def is_sequence(x):