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r76934 does not apply and was deleted in the merge.

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  r76937 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-20 12:28:31 -0500 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 20 lines

  Merged revisions 76934-76935 via svnmerge from
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    r76934 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-20 11:24:46 -0500 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

    Fix comment typo.
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    r76935 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-20 11:46:06 -0500 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 10 lines

    Issue #7376: When called with no arguments doctest was running a
    self-test.  Because of a change to the way tracebacks are printed,
    this self-test was failing.  The test is run (and passes) during normal
    regression testing.  So instead of running the failing self-test this
    patch makes doctest emit a usage message.  This is better behavior anyway
    since passing in arguments is the real reason to run doctest as a command.

    Bug discovery and initial patch by Florent Xicluna.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f40ae65..dc33c56 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@
 Tests
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+- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
+  with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
+
 - Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
   instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.