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  r87050 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-04 18:09:30 +0100 (Sa, 04 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r87101 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-06 23:02:48 +0100 (Mo, 06 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove visible XXX comments.
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  r87146 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-09 19:08:43 +0100 (Do, 09 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix "seperate".
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  r87156 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-10 11:01:44 +0100 (Fr, 10 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10668: fix wrong call of __init__.
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  r87172 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-11 20:10:30 +0100 (Sa, 11 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Avoid AttributeError(_closed) when a TemporaryDirectory is deallocated whose mkdtemp call failed.
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  r87175 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-11 23:19:34 +0100 (Sa, 11 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r87371 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-18 17:21:58 +0100 (Sa, 18 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r87378 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-18 18:51:28 +0100 (Sa, 18 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10723: add missing builtin exceptions.
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  r87522 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:16:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Replace sys.maxint mention by sys.maxsize.
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  r87523 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:18:24 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove confusing paragraph -- this is relevant only to advanced users anyway and does not belong into the tutorial.
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  r87524 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:29:19 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix advice: call PyType_Ready to fill in ob_type of custom types.
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  r87526 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 11:38:33 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10777: fix iteration over dict keys while mutating the dict.
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  r87530 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:06:07 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10767: update README in crashers; not all may have a bug entry and/or be fixed.
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  r87531 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:08:17 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10742: document readonly attribute of memoryviews.
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  r87532 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:15:49 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10781: clarify that *encoding* is not a parameter for Node objects in general.
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  r87533 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:38:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove history; adapt a bit more to reST, since this will once be part of the dev guide.
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  r87534 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:48:53 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Rewrap.
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  r87535 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:49:41 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10739: document that on Windows, socket.makefile() does not make a file that has a true file descriptor usable where such a thing is expected.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index cfde5b9..064ddd4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
    to discard children of that node.
 
 
-.. method:: Node.writexml(writer[, indent=""[, addindent=""[, newl=""[, encoding=""]]]])
+.. method:: Node.writexml(writer[, indent=""[, addindent=""[, newl=""]]])
 
    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
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@
    indentation to use for subnodes of the current one.  The *newl* parameter
    specifies the string to use to terminate newlines.
 
+   For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can
+   be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 2.1
       The optional keyword parameters *indent*, *addindent*, and *newl* were added to
       support pretty output.