--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst	Mon Aug 24 17:14:29 2009 +0000
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst	Mon Aug 24 17:20:40 2009 +0000
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
 
 .. _tut-scopes:
 
-Python Scopes and Name Spaces
-=============================
+Python Scopes and Namespaces
+============================
 
 Before introducing classes, I first have to tell you something about Python's
 scope rules.  Class definitions play some neat tricks with namespaces, and you
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 :keyword:`del` statement.  For example, ``del modname.the_answer`` will remove
 the attribute :attr:`the_answer` from the object named by ``modname``.
 
-Name spaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes.  The
+Namespaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes.  The
 namespace containing the built-in names is created when the Python interpreter
 starts up, and is never deleted.  The global namespace for a module is created
 when the module definition is read in; normally, module namespaces also last