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  r74609 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-08-31 18:43:45 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 3 lines

  Doc fix for issue2637.
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  #6819: fix typo.
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    #6757: complete the list of types that marshal can serialize.
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  #5221: fix related topics: SEQUENCEMETHODS[12] doesnt exist any more.
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    r74650 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 13:19:34 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #5101: add back tests to test_funcattrs that were lost during unittest conversion, and make some PEP8 cleanups.
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    r74737 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-09 18:49:13 +0200 (Mi, 09 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    Properly document copy and deepcopy as functions.
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    Remove some more boilerplate from the actual tests in test_pdb.
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    Make the pdb displayhook compatible with the standard displayhook: do not print Nones. Add a test for that.
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  r75016 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-22 15:53:14 +0200 (Di, 22 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6969: make it explicit that configparser writes/reads text files, and fix the example.
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    r75313 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:07:35 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Bring old demo up-to-date.
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    Remove unneeded "L" suffixes.
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    r75321 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:43:21 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Remove outdated comment and fix a few style issues.
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    r75322 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:47:31 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Show use of range() step argument nicely.
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    r75325 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:55:11 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Modernize factorisation demo (mostly augassign.)
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    Style fixes.
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    r75329 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 00:26:45 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Modernize all around (dont ask me how useful that script is nowadays...)
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    Update morse script, avoid globals, use iterators.
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    r75339 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 10:39:16 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Update markov demo.
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  Fix README description.
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    Remove useless script "mkrcs" and update README.
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    Use getopt in script.py demo.
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    Fix variable.
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    Update lpwatch script.
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    Remove ftpstats script, the daemon whose log files it reads is long gone.
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    Overhaul of Demo/xml.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
index a54bc19..a5d3a77 100644
--- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -231,9 +231,11 @@
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.readfp(fp, filename=None)
 
    Read and parse configuration data from the file or file-like object in *fp*
-   (only the :meth:`readline` method is used).  If *filename* is omitted and *fp*
-   has a :attr:`name` attribute, that is used for *filename*; the default is
-   ``<???>``.
+   (only the :meth:`readline` method is used).  The file-like object must
+   operate in text mode, i.e. return strings from :meth:`readline`.
+
+   If *filename* is omitted and *fp* has a :attr:`name` attribute, that is used
+   for *filename*; the default is ``<???>``.
 
 
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.get(section, option)
@@ -279,8 +281,9 @@
 
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.write(fileobject)
 
-   Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object.  This
-   representation can be parsed by a future :meth:`read` call.
+   Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object,
+   which must be opened in text mode (accepting strings).  This representation
+   can be parsed by a future :meth:`read` call.
 
 
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.remove_option(section, option)
@@ -370,7 +373,7 @@
    config.set('Section1', 'foo', '%(bar)s is %(baz)s!')
 
    # Writing our configuration file to 'example.cfg'
-   with open('example.cfg', 'wb') as configfile:
+   with open('example.cfg', 'w') as configfile:
        config.write(configfile)
 
 An example of reading the configuration file again::