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@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ when source-code information does not exist and there is just bytecode
 information.
 
 Other parts of the library can be used inside Python for various
-bytecode-related tasks. For example you can read in bytecode (do a
-version indepedant `marshal.loads()` and disassemble that from a
-version of Python different from the one the bytecode was compiled
-for.
+bytecode-related tasks. For example you can read in bytecode,
+i.e. perform a version-independent `marshal.loads()`, and disassemble
+the bytecode using version of Python different from the one used to
+compile the bytecode.
 
 
 Installation