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  r82629 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 20:51:43 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Make comment out of an awkward note.
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  r82724 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-09 09:33:15 +0200 (Fr, 09 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  2.7 is now stable.
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  Fix markup.
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  Emphasize role of count for Pascal string.
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  #3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary.
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  #1434090: properly append child in expatbuilder doctype handler.
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  #8338: fix outdated class name.
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  #8456: fix signature of sqlite3.connect().
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  r82798 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:23:11 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform.
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  r82799 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:26:57 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  #9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 38b55c5..d73b279 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@
    :meth:`__index__` method that returns an integer.
 
 
-.. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=None, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)
+.. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)
 
    Open *file* and return a corresponding stream.  If the file cannot be opened,
    an :exc:`IOError` is raised.
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 7fbb258..bd79a3e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -2217,8 +2217,8 @@
 
 
 An example of how a pool of worker processes can each run a
-:class:`SimpleHTTPServer.HttpServer` instance while sharing a single listening
-socket.
+:class:`~http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` instance while sharing a single
+listening socket.
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_webserver.py
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 511d37b..931dd14 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -741,7 +741,9 @@
    Shut down one or both halves of the connection.  If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RD`,
    further receives are disallowed.  If *how* is :const:`SHUT_WR`, further sends
    are disallowed.  If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RDWR`, further sends and receives are
-   disallowed.
+   disallowed.  Depending on the platform, shutting down one half of the connection
+   can also close the opposite half (e.g. on Mac OS X, ``shutdown(SHUT_WR)`` does
+   not allow further reads on the other end of the connection).
 
 Note that there are no methods :meth:`read` or :meth:`write`; use
 :meth:`~socket.recv` and :meth:`~socket.send` without *flags* argument instead.
diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index d542cbb..8cd5ba6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
    first blank for the column name: the column name would simply be "x".
 
 
-.. function:: connect(database[, timeout, isolation_level, detect_types, factory])
+.. function:: connect(database[, timeout, detect_types, isolation_level, check_same_thread, factory, cached_statements])
 
    Opens a connection to the SQLite database file *database*. You can use
    ``":memory:"`` to open a database connection to a database that resides in RAM
diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
index 6fbce6c..1834cfd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/struct.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -251,18 +251,16 @@
    In 3.0, some of the integer formats wrapped out-of-range values and
    raised :exc:`DeprecationWarning` instead of :exc:`struct.error`.
 
-
 The ``'p'`` format character encodes a "Pascal string", meaning a short
-variable-length string stored in a fixed number of bytes. The count is the total
-number of bytes stored.  The first byte stored is the length of the string, or
-255, whichever is smaller.  The bytes of the string follow.  If the string
-passed in to :func:`pack` is too long (longer than the count minus 1), only the
-leading count-1 bytes of the string are stored.  If the string is shorter than
-count-1, it is padded with null bytes so that exactly count bytes in all are
-used.  Note that for :func:`unpack`, the ``'p'`` format character consumes count
-bytes, but that the string returned can never contain more than 255 bytes.
-
-
+variable-length string stored in a *fixed number of bytes*, given by the count.
+The first byte stored is the length of the string, or 255, whichever is
+smaller.  The bytes of the string follow.  If the string passed in to
+:func:`pack` is too long (longer than the count minus 1), only the leading
+``count-1`` bytes of the string are stored.  If the string is shorter than
+``count-1``, it is padded with null bytes so that exactly count bytes in all
+are used.  Note that for :func:`unpack`, the ``'p'`` format character consumes
+``count`` bytes, but that the string returned can never contain more than 255
+bytes.
 
 For the ``'?'`` format character, the return value is either :const:`True` or
 :const:`False`. When packing, the truth value of the argument object is used.