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  r70518 | matthias.klose | 2009-03-22 08:08:22 -0500 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) | 2 lines

  - Fix comment macro in python.man
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  r70521 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-22 12:45:11 -0500 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  close the file even if an exception occurs #5536
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  r70590 | skip.montanaro | 2009-03-24 19:52:11 -0500 (Tue, 24 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  clarify the type of data returned
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  r70594 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-03-25 14:44:58 -0500 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) | 9 lines

  Remove the sys.version_info shortcut, since they cause the APIs
  to return different information than the _sys_version() output
  used in previous Python versions.

  This also fixes issue5561: platform.python_version_tuple returns tuple of ints, should be strings

  Added more tests for the various platform functions.
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  r70595 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-03-25 14:45:33 -0500 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  News item for the platform.py fix (r70594).
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diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man
index 23039e8..3c7d606 100644
--- a/Misc/python.man
+++ b/Misc/python.man
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .TH PYTHON "1" "$Date$"
 
-./" To view this file while editing, run it through groff:
-./"   groff -Tascii -man python.man | less
+.\" To view this file while editing, run it through groff:
+.\"   groff -Tascii -man python.man | less
 
 .SH NAME
 python \- an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language