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  r67154 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-11-08 04:46:17 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4071: ntpath.abspath returned an empty string for long unicode path.
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  r67157 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 12:47:44 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Don't use "HOWTO" as the title for all howto .tex files.
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  r67158 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 12:48:20 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Update "Documenting" a bit. Concentrate on Python-specifics.
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  r67159 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 13:52:25 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix warning.
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  r67162 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 17:55:33 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  a few compile() and ast doc improvements
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  r67163 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 18:04:18 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  move context clue to versionchanged tag
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  r67166 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 18:07:06 +0100 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  clarify what was added
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  r67175 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-09 02:44:32 +0100 (Sun, 09 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  update link
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  r67176 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-09 02:52:32 +0100 (Sun, 09 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  fix comment
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  r67189 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-11 22:56:06 +0100 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  use correct name
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  r67224 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-15 09:10:04 +0100 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4324: fix getlocale() argument.
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  r67225 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-15 23:33:25 +0100 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Clarify the docs for the 'strict' argument to httplib.HTTPConnection.
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  r67243 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-17 22:39:05 +0100 (Mon, 17 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  a few fixes on the download page
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index 2192d11..e1a8ac0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -21,13 +21,12 @@
 Python release; this module helps to find out programmatically what the current
 grammar looks like.
 
-An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing :data:`_ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST`
-as a flag to the :func:`compile` builtin function, or using the :func:`parse`
+An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing :data:`ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST` as
+a flag to the :func:`compile` builtin function, or using the :func:`parse`
 helper provided in this module.  The result will be a tree of objects whose
-classes all inherit from :class:`ast.AST`.
+classes all inherit from :class:`ast.AST`.  An abstract syntax tree can be
+compiled into a Python code object using the built-in :func:`compile` function.
 
-A modified abstract syntax tree can be compiled into a Python code object using
-the built-in :func:`compile` function.
 
 Node classes
 ------------
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@
 .. function:: parse(expr, filename='<unknown>', mode='exec')
 
    Parse an expression into an AST node.  Equivalent to ``compile(expr,
-   filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
+   filename, mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
 
    
 .. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string)
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 78d2ad1..daa2704 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -199,15 +199,8 @@
 
    Compile the *source* into a code or AST object.  Code objects can be executed
    by an :keyword:`exec` statement or evaluated by a call to :func:`eval`.
-   *source* can either be a string or an AST object.  Refer to the :mod:`_ast`
-   module documentation for information on how to compile into and from AST
-   objects.
-
-   When compiling a string with multi-line statements, two caveats apply: line
-   endings must be represented by a single newline character (``'\n'``), and the
-   input must be terminated by at least one newline character.  If line endings
-   are represented by ``'\r\n'``, use the string :meth:`replace` method to
-   change them into ``'\n'``.
+   *source* can either be a string or an AST object.  Refer to the :mod:`ast`
+   module documentation for information on how to work with AST objects.
 
    The *filename* argument should give the file from which the code was read;
    pass some recognizable value if it wasn't read from a file (``'<string>'`` is
@@ -219,15 +212,15 @@
    interactive statement (in the latter case, expression statements that
    evaluate to something else than ``None`` will be printed).
 
-   The optional arguments *flags* and *dont_inherit* (which are new in Python 2.2)
-   control which future statements (see :pep:`236`) affect the compilation of
-   *source*.  If neither is present (or both are zero) the code is compiled with
-   those future statements that are in effect in the code that is calling compile.
-   If the *flags* argument is given and *dont_inherit* is not (or is zero) then the
+   The optional arguments *flags* and *dont_inherit* control which future
+   statements (see :pep:`236`) affect the compilation of *source*.  If neither
+   is present (or both are zero) the code is compiled with those future
+   statements that are in effect in the code that is calling compile.  If the
+   *flags* argument is given and *dont_inherit* is not (or is zero) then the
    future statements specified by the *flags* argument are used in addition to
    those that would be used anyway. If *dont_inherit* is a non-zero integer then
-   the *flags* argument is it -- the future statements in effect around the call to
-   compile are ignored.
+   the *flags* argument is it -- the future statements in effect around the call
+   to compile are ignored.
 
    Future statements are specified by bits which can be bitwise ORed together to
    specify multiple statements.  The bitfield required to specify a given feature
@@ -237,7 +230,18 @@
    This function raises :exc:`SyntaxError` if the compiled source is invalid,
    and :exc:`TypeError` if the source contains null bytes.
 
-   .. versionadded:: 2.6
+   .. note::
+
+      When compiling a string with multi-line statements, line endings must be
+      represented by a single newline character (``'\n'``), and the input must
+      be terminated by at least one newline character.  If line endings are
+      represented by ``'\r\n'``, use :meth:`str.replace` to change them into
+      ``'\n'``.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.3
+      The *flags* and *dont_inherit* arguments were added.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.6
       Support for compiling AST objects.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/httplib.rst b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
index 4c87d17..874fd54 100644
--- a/Doc/library/httplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
    server.  It should be instantiated passing it a host and optional port
    number.  If no port number is passed, the port is extracted from the host
    string if it has the form ``host:port``, else the default HTTP port (80) is
-   used.  When True, the optional parameter *strict* causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
+   used.  When True, the optional parameter *strict* (which defaults to a false
+   value) causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
    be raised if the status line can't be parsed as a valid HTTP/1.0 or 1.1
    status line.  If the optional *timeout* parameter is given, blocking
    operations (like connection attempts) will timeout after that many seconds
diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst
index 6d427b7..3dfefa2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/locale.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
 Example::
 
    >>> import locale
-   >>> loc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_ALL) # get current locale
+   >>> loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale
    >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') # use German locale; name might vary with platform
    >>> locale.strcoll('f\xe4n', 'foo') # compare a string containing an umlaut 
    >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') # use user's preferred locale
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 16bb8f9..7a13183 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1870,7 +1870,7 @@
 Below is an example session with logging turned on::
 
     >>> import multiprocessing, logging
-    >>> logger = multiprocessing.getLogger()
+    >>> logger = multiprocessing.get_logger()
     >>> logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
     >>> logger.warning('doomed')
     [WARNING/MainProcess] doomed