diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 8b2f047..d1a3daf 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -473,15 +473,6 @@
        ...
        g(x, *args, **kwargs)
 
-In the unlikely case that you care about Python versions older than 2.0, use
-:func:`apply`::
-
-   def f(x, *args, **kwargs):
-       ...
-       kwargs['width'] = '14.3c'
-       ...
-       apply(g, (x,)+args, kwargs)
-
 
 How do I write a function with output parameters (call by reference)?
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 6b37faf..68a1b5c 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
 
 If you can't change compilers or flags, try using :c:func:`Py_RunSimpleString`.
 A trick to get it to run an arbitrary file is to construct a call to
-:func:`execfile` with the name of your file as argument.
+:func:`exec` and :func:`open` with the name of your file as argument.
 
 Also note that you can not mix-and-match Debug and Release versions.  If you
 wish to use the Debug Multithreaded DLL, then your module *must* have ``_d``