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  r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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  #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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  #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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  #8172: how does one use a property?
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  #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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  #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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  #8861: remove unused variable.
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  r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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  #9037: add example how to raise custom exceptions from C code.
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  #9111: document that do_help() looks at docstrings.
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  Clarify that abs() is not a namespace.
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  #6867: epoll.register() returns None.
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  #9238: zipfile does handle archive comments.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 7fce170..0288271 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -567,6 +567,38 @@
    *NULL* if an exception was raised by the codec.
 
 
+UTF-7 Codecs
+""""""""""""
+
+These are the UTF-7 codec APIs:
+
+
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeUTF7(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
+
+   Create a Unicode object by decoding *size* bytes of the UTF-7 encoded string
+   *s*.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by the codec.
+
+
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8Stateful(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors, Py_ssize_t *consumed)
+
+   If *consumed* is *NULL*, behave like :cfunc:`PyUnicode_DecodeUTF7`.  If
+   *consumed* is not *NULL*, trailing incomplete UTF-7 base-64 sections will not
+   be treated as an error.  Those bytes will not be decoded and the number of
+   bytes that have been decoded will be stored in *consumed*.
+
+
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeUTF7(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, int base64SetO, int base64WhiteSpace, const char *errors)
+
+   Encode the :ctype:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using UTF-7 and
+   return a Python bytes object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by
+   the codec.
+
+   If *base64SetO* is nonzero, "Set O" (punctuation that has no otherwise
+   special meaning) will be encoded in base-64.  If *base64WhiteSpace* is
+   nonzero, whitespace will be encoded in base-64.  Both are set to zero for the
+   Python "utf-7" codec.
+
+
 Unicode-Escape Codecs
 """""""""""""""""""""
 
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst b/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst
index 80ebf82..226ec38 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/weakref.rst
@@ -63,10 +63,17 @@
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyWeakref_GetObject(PyObject *ref)
 
    Return the referenced object from a weak reference, *ref*.  If the referent is
-   no longer live, returns ``None``.
+   no longer live, returns :const:`Py_None`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.2
 
+   .. warning::
+
+      This function returns a **borrowed reference** to the referenced object.
+      This means that you should always call :cfunc:`Py_INCREF` on the object
+      except if you know that it cannot be destroyed while you are still
+      using it.
+
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyWeakref_GET_OBJECT(PyObject *ref)