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  r74821 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 11:42:19 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6885: run python 3 as python3.
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  r74828 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 16:23:20 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Use true booleans.
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  r74829 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 16:24:29 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Small PEP8 correction.
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  r74830 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 16:36:22 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Use true booleans.
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  r74831 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 17:54:04 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Use true booleans and PEP8 for argdefaults.
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  r74833 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 17:58:14 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Last round of adapting style of documenting argument default values.
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  r74835 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 18:00:31 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 33 lines

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    r74817 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 11:05:11 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    Make deprecation notices as visible as warnings are right now.
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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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    r74823 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 15:06:22 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    Remove strange trailing commas.
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    r74824 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 15:11:06 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6892: fix optparse example involving help option.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index b7e4216..98e7586 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` --- Lightweight DOM implementation
 =========================================================
 
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@
 The :func:`parse` function can take either a filename or an open file object.
 
 
-.. function:: parse(filename_or_file[, parser[, bufsize]])
+.. function:: parse(filename_or_file, parser=None, bufsize=None)
 
    Return a :class:`Document` from the given input. *filename_or_file* may be
    either a file name, or a file-like object. *parser*, if given, must be a SAX2
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@
 instead:
 
 
-.. function:: parseString(string[, parser])
+.. function:: parseString(string, parser=None)
 
    Return a :class:`Document` that represents the *string*. This method creates a
    :class:`StringIO` object for the string and passes that on to :func:`parse`.
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@
    to discard children of that node.
 
 
-.. method:: Node.writexml(writer[, indent=""[, addindent=""[, newl=""[, encoding=""]]]])
+.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="", encoding="")
 
    Write XML to the writer object.  The writer should have a :meth:`write` method
    which matches that of the file object interface.  The *indent* parameter is the
@@ -138,7 +137,7 @@
    used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.
 
 
-.. method:: Node.toxml([encoding])
+.. method:: Node.toxml(encoding=None)
 
    Return the XML that the DOM represents as a string.
 
@@ -153,7 +152,7 @@
    encoding argument should be specified as "utf-8".
 
 
-.. method:: Node.toprettyxml([indent=""[, newl=""[, encoding=""]]])
+.. method:: Node.toprettyxml(indent="", newl="", encoding="")
 
    Return a pretty-printed version of the document. *indent* specifies the
    indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; *newl* specifies the string