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  r67571 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 10:13:45 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Use markup.
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  r67574 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 10:25:32 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4441 followup: Add link to open() docs for Windows.
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  r67575 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 12:34:51 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4544: add `dedent` to textwrap.__all__.
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  r67576 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 13:09:41 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4529: fix parser's validation for try-except-finally statements.
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  r67579 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 16:29:39 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4517: add "special method" glossary entry and clarify when __getattribute__ is bypassed.
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  r67580 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 16:32:29 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4478: document that copyfile() can raise Error.
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  r67581 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 16:42:03 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #3171: document that *slice are removed in 3k.
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  r67583 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 16:52:20 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  Move __import__ to the bottom of the functions list.
  It doesn't make sense for such a fundamental document to have
  the most obscure function listed at the top.
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  r67591 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 19:00:06 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Followup to #4511: add link from decorator glossary entry to definition.
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  r67597 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 20:03:19 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove confusing sentence part.
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  r67608 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-06 12:57:12 +0100 (Sat, 06 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Follow-up to #4488: document PIPE and STDOUT properly.
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  r67631 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 12:54:07 +0100 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add link to the favicon to the docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/operator.rst b/Doc/library/operator.rst
index 4921898..2ab54db 100644
--- a/Doc/library/operator.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/operator.rst
@@ -240,6 +240,10 @@
 
    Delete the slice of *a* from index *b* to index *c-1*.
 
+   .. deprecated:: 2.6
+      This function is removed in Python 3.x.  Use :func:`delitem` with a slice
+      index.
+
 
 .. function:: getitem(a, b)
               __getitem__(a, b)
@@ -252,6 +256,10 @@
 
    Return the slice of *a* from index *b* to index *c-1*.
 
+   .. deprecated:: 2.6
+      This function is removed in Python 3.x.  Use :func:`getitem` with a slice
+      index.
+
 
 .. function:: indexOf(a, b)
 
@@ -283,6 +291,11 @@
 
    Set the slice of *a* from index *b* to index *c-1* to the sequence *v*.
 
+   .. deprecated:: 2.6
+      This function is removed in Python 3.x.  Use :func:`setitem` with a slice
+      index.
+
+
 Many operations have an "in-place" version.  The following functions provide a
 more primitive access to in-place operators than the usual syntax does; for
 example, the :term:`statement` ``x += y`` is equivalent to