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  r78859 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-12 10:57:43 +0100 (Fr, 12 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Get rid of backticks.
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  r78860 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-12 11:02:03 +0100 (Fr, 12 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Fix warnings from "make check".
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  r78952 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-14 10:55:08 +0100 (So, 14 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  #8137: add iso-8859-16 to the standard encodings table.
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  r79168 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:01:27 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Fix some issues found by Jacques Ducasse on the docs list.
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  r79169 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:02:01 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Remove the "built-in objects" file.  It only contained two paragraphs of which only one contained useful information, which belongs in the ref manual however.
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  r79173 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:09:38 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Document that GzipFile supports iteration.
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  r79176 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:17:41 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Introduce copy by slicing, used in later chapters.
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  r79178 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:28:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Clarify that for shell=True, the shell PID will be the child PID.
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  r79179 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:37:54 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Mention inefficiency of lists as queues, add link to collections.deque discussion.
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  r79181 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:51:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Update os.kill() emulation example for Windows to use ctypes.
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  r79184 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:58:36 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Update text for newest US DST regulation.  The sample file already has the calculation right.
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  r79185 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 11:02:47 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Include structmember.h correctly.
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  r79192 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 12:50:58 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Remove leftover word.
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  r79212 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 20:01:38 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Fix plural.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6e8f507..e5df766 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
    This function can also be used to execute arbitrary code objects (such as
    those created by :func:`compile`).  In this case pass a code object instead
    of a string.  If the code object has been compiled with ``'exec'`` as the
-   *kind* argument, :func:`eval`\'s return value will be ``None``.
+   *mode* argument, :func:`eval`\'s return value will be ``None``.
 
    Hints: dynamic execution of statements is supported by the :keyword:`exec`
    statement.  Execution of statements from a file is supported by the
@@ -1135,7 +1135,8 @@
    value is ``None``.
 
    *key* specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison
-   key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``.  The default value is ``None``.
+   key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``.  The default value is ``None``
+   (compare the elements directly).
 
    *reverse* is a boolean value.  If set to ``True``, then the list elements are
    sorted as if each comparison were reversed.