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  r74492 | r.david.murray | 2009-08-17 21:26:49 +0200 (Mo, 17 Aug 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue 6685: 'toupper' -> 'upper' in cgi doc example explanation.
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  r74531 | vinay.sajip | 2009-08-21 00:04:32 +0200 (Fr, 21 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  Added section on exceptions raised during logging.
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  r74545 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:14:29 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias.
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  r74546 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:20:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6725: spell "namespace" consistently.
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  r74547 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:22:05 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6718: fix example.
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  r74548 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:24:27 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6677: mention "deleting" as an alias for removing files.
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  r74549 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-08-24 19:42:36 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  fix pdf building by teaching latex the right encoding package
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  r74550 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:48:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories.
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  r74553 | r.david.murray | 2009-08-27 03:04:59 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 2 lines

  Remove leftover text from end of sentence.
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  r74554 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 20:59:02 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fix.
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  r74555 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 21:02:43 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6787: reference fix.
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  r74588 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 10:35:01 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6803: fix old name.
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  r74603 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-31 08:38:29 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  other -> others where multiple arguments are accepted.
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  r74608 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-08-31 18:40:27 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 3 lines

  Doc fix for the issue2637.
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  r74614 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:40:54 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6813: better documentation for numberless string formats.
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  r74616 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:46:26 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6808: clarification.
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  r74617 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:53:37 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6765: hint that log(x, base) is not very sophisticated.
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  r74618 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:00:47 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6810: add a link to the section about frame objects instead of just a description where to find it.
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  r74631 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-02 22:37:16 +0200 (Mi, 02 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6821: fix signature of PyBuffer_Release().
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  r74632 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-03 09:27:26 +0200 (Do, 03 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6828: fix wrongly highlighted blocks.
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  r74633 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-03 14:31:39 +0200 (Do, 03 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6757: complete the list of types that marshal can serialize.
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  r74652 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 13:25:37 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6756: add some info about the "acct" parameter.
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  r74653 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 13:32:18 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6777: dont discourage usage of Exception.args or promote usage of Exception.message.
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  r74666 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-05 11:04:09 +0200 (Sa, 05 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6841: remove duplicated word.
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  r74671 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-05 18:47:17 +0200 (Sa, 05 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6843: add link from filterwarnings to where the meaning of the arguments is covered.
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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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  r74739 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-11 09:55:20 +0200 (Fr, 11 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Move function back to its section.
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  r74779 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 18:13:36 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Change to tutorial wording for reading text / binary files on Windows. Issue #6301.
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  r74781 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 18:46:19 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Note that sys._getframe is not guaranteed to exist in all implementations of Python, and a corresponding note in inspect.currentframe. Issue 6712.
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  r74782 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 19:07:46 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Tutorial tweaks. Issue 6849.
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  r74784 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-13 20:15:07 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fix.
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  r74791 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-14 16:08:54 +0200 (Mo, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6574: list the future features in a table.
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  r74793 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-14 16:50:47 +0200 (Mo, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6908: fix association of hashlib hash attributes.
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  r74818 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 11:23:04 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6880: add reference to classes section in exceptions section, which comes earlier.
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  r74819 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 11:24:57 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6876: fix base class constructor invocation in example.
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  r74820 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 11:30:48 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6891: comment out dead link to Unicode article.
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  r74822 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 12:12:06 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #5621: refactor description of how class/instance attributes interact on a.x=a.x+1 or augassign.
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  r74832 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 17:57:46 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Rewrap long lines.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 9352f40..0259749 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@
 
 Basic usage of the :meth:`str.format` method looks like this::
 
-   >>> print 'We are the {0} who say "{1}!"'.format('knights', 'Ni')
+   >>> print 'We are the {} who say "{}!"'.format('knights', 'Ni')
    We are the knights who say "Ni!"
 
 The brackets and characters within them (called format fields) are replaced with
-the objects passed into the :meth:`~str.format` method.  The number in the
+the objects passed into the :meth:`~str.format` method.  A number in the
 brackets refers to the position of the object passed into the
 :meth:`~str.format` method. ::
 
@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@
    ...                                                    other='Georg')
    The story of Bill, Manfred, and Georg.
 
+``'!s'`` (apply :func:`str`) and ``'!r'`` (apply :func:`repr`) can be used to
+convert the value before it is formatted. ::
+
+   >>> import math
+   >>> print 'The value of PI is approximately {}.'.format(math.pi)
+   The value of PI is approximately 3.14159265359.
+   >>> print 'The value of PI is approximately {!r}.'.format(math.pi)
+   The value of PI is approximately 3.141592653589793.
+
 An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This allows
 greater control over how the value is formatted.  The following example
 truncates Pi to three places after the decimal.
@@ -239,8 +248,8 @@
 omitted.
 
 On Windows, ``'b'`` appended to the mode opens the file in binary mode, so there
-are also modes like ``'rb'``, ``'wb'``, and ``'r+b'``.  Windows makes a
-distinction between text and binary files; the end-of-line characters in text
+are also modes like ``'rb'``, ``'wb'``, and ``'r+b'``.  Python on Windows makes
+a distinction between text and binary files; the end-of-line characters in text
 files are automatically altered slightly when data is read or written.  This
 behind-the-scenes modification to file data is fine for ASCII text files, but
 it'll corrupt binary data like that in :file:`JPEG` or :file:`EXE` files.  Be