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  r62246 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-09 19:57:38 +0200 (Mi, 09 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2585: initialize code attribute of HTTPError.
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  r62247 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-09 19:58:56 +0200 (Mi, 09 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add :issue: directive for easy linking to bugs.python.org.
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  r62249 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-09 20:18:43 +0200 (Mi, 09 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a note about the zlib.decompressobj().flush() fix.
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  r62255 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-04-09 20:56:20 +0200 (Mi, 09 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Package wininst*.exe from distutils/command.
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  r62259 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-10 00:28:43 +0200 (Do, 10 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Try out the new issue role.  Thanks, Georg!
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diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index b7fdf45..ec889d7 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # ---------------------
 
 extensions = ['sphinx.ext.refcounting', 'sphinx.ext.coverage',
-              'sphinx.ext.doctest']
+              'sphinx.ext.doctest', 'pyspecific']
 templates_path = ['tools/sphinxext']
 
 # General substitutions.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7c0daa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    pyspecific.py
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Sphinx extension with Python doc-specific markup.
+
+    :copyright: 2008 by Georg Brandl.
+    :license: Python license.
+"""
+
+ISSUE_URI = 'http://bugs.python.org/issue%s'
+
+from docutils import nodes, utils
+
+def issue_role(typ, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
+    issue = utils.unescape(text)
+    text = 'issue ' + issue
+    refnode = nodes.reference(text, text, refuri=ISSUE_URI % issue)
+    return [refnode], []
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_role('issue', issue_role)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 29a2693..8cbe49f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@
     >>> f(**ud)
     ['a', 'b']
 
-  .. Patch 1686487
+  (Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky; :issue:`1686487`.)
 
 * Tuples now have an :meth:`index` method matching the list type's
   :meth:`index` method::