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    r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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    #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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    #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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    #8172: how does one use a property?
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    r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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    r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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    r83555 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:44:48 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8861: remove unused variable.
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    r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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    r83563 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:21:21 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #9037: add example how to raise custom exceptions from C code.
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    r83565 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:27:20 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #9111: document that do_help() looks at docstrings.
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    r83571 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:44:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    Clarify that abs() is not a namespace.
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    #6867: epoll.register() returns None.
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    #9238: zipfile does handle archive comments.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index 8b92f1f..b2bf730 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
@@ -15,10 +15,8 @@
 defined in `PKZIP Application Note
 <http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT>`_.
 
-This module does not currently handle multi-disk ZIP files, or ZIP files
-which have appended comments (although it correctly handles comments
-added to individual archive members---for which see the :ref:`zipinfo-objects`
-documentation). It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions
+This module does not currently handle multi-disk ZIP files.
+It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions
 (that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size).  It supports
 decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it currently cannot
 create an encrypted file.  Decryption is extremely slow as it is
@@ -66,8 +64,7 @@
 .. function:: is_zipfile(filename)
 
    Returns ``True`` if *filename* is a valid ZIP file based on its magic number,
-   otherwise returns ``False``.  This module does not currently handle ZIP files
-   which have appended comments.
+   otherwise returns ``False``.
 
 
 .. data:: ZIP_STORED