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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Abstract
     provide to control the behaviour of 'for' loops.  Looping is
     customized by providing a method that produces an iterator object.
     The iterator provides a 'get next value' operation that produces
-    the nxet item in the sequence each time it is called, raising an
+    the next item in the sequence each time it is called, raising an
     exception when no more items are available.
 
     In addition, specific iterators over the keys of a dictionary and