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  r73004 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2009-05-28 22:44:31 -0500 (Thu, 28 May 2009) | 5 lines

  Fix nearly all compilation warnings under Apple gcc-4.0.  Tested with OPT="-g
  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror" in both --with-pydebug mode and --without.
  There's still a batch of non-prototype warnings in Xlib.h that I don't know how
  to fix.
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  r73439 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-15 19:29:31 -0500 (Mon, 15 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  don't mask encoding errors when decoding a string #6289
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  r73496 | vinay.sajip | 2009-06-21 12:37:27 -0500 (Sun, 21 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
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  r73509 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-06-22 14:33:48 -0500 (Mon, 22 Jun 2009) | 2 lines

  #4490 Fix sample code run by "python -m xml.sax.xmlreader"
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  r73529 | r.david.murray | 2009-06-23 13:02:46 -0500 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009) | 4 lines

  Fix issue 5230 by having pydoc's safeimport check to see if the import
  error was thrown from itself in order to decide if the module can't be
  found.  Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for collaborating on the fix and tests.
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  r73564 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-06-25 17:29:29 -0500 (Thu, 25 Jun 2009) | 6 lines

  #2016 Fix a crash in function call when the **kwargs dictionary is mutated
  during the function call setup.

  This even gives a slight speedup, probably because tuple allocation
  is faster than PyMem_NEW.
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  r73576 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-26 18:37:06 -0500 (Fri, 26 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  document is_declared_global()
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  r73577 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-27 09:16:23 -0500 (Sat, 27 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  link to extensive generator docs in the reference manual
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  r73595 | ezio.melotti | 2009-06-27 18:45:39 -0500 (Sat, 27 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  stmt and setup can contain multiple statements, see #5896
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  r73596 | ezio.melotti | 2009-06-27 19:07:45 -0500 (Sat, 27 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed a wrong apostrophe
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  r73605 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-28 07:10:18 -0500 (Sun, 28 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Remove stray pychecker directive.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/timeit.rst b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
index 495ac81..a85fa3e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/timeit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
 
    The constructor takes a statement to be timed, an additional statement used for
    setup, and a timer function.  Both statements default to ``'pass'``; the timer
-   function is platform-dependent (see the module doc string).  The statements may
-   contain newlines, as long as they don't contain multi-line string literals.
+   function is platform-dependent (see the module doc string).  *stmt* and *setup*
+   may also contain multiple statements separated by ``;`` or newlines, as long as
+   they don't contain multi-line string literals.
 
    To measure the execution time of the first statement, use the :meth:`timeit`
    method.  The :meth:`repeat` method is a convenience to call :meth:`timeit`