diff -r 4969057df0b1 -r 6dd871defc3f Doc/faq/programming.rst
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst	Wed Sep 22 07:45:14 2010 +0200
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst	Thu Sep 23 18:04:43 2010 +0900
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@
 :func:`float`.  ``split()`` supports an optional "sep" parameter which is useful
 if the line uses something other than whitespace as a separator.
 
-For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions more powerful than C's
+For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions are more powerful than C's
 :cfunc:`sscanf` and better suited for the task.