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r74492 | r.david.murray | 2009-08-17 21:26:49 +0200 (Mo, 17 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
Issue 6685: 'toupper' -> 'upper' in cgi doc example explanation.
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r74531 | vinay.sajip | 2009-08-21 00:04:32 +0200 (Fr, 21 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Added section on exceptions raised during logging.
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r74545 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:14:29 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias.
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r74546 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:20:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6725: spell "namespace" consistently.
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r74547 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:22:05 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6718: fix example.
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r74548 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:24:27 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6677: mention "deleting" as an alias for removing files.
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r74549 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-08-24 19:42:36 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
fix pdf building by teaching latex the right encoding package
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r74550 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:48:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories.
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r74553 | r.david.murray | 2009-08-27 03:04:59 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
Remove leftover text from end of sentence.
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r74554 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 20:59:02 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Typo fix.
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r74555 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 21:02:43 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6787: reference fix.
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r74588 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 10:35:01 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line
#6803: fix old name.
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r74603 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-31 08:38:29 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 1 line
other -> others where multiple arguments are accepted.
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r74608 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-08-31 18:40:27 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 3 lines
Doc fix for the issue2637.
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r74614 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:40:54 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6813: better documentation for numberless string formats.
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r74616 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:46:26 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6808: clarification.
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r74617 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:53:37 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6765: hint that log(x, base) is not very sophisticated.
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r74618 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:00:47 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6810: add a link to the section about frame objects instead of just a description where to find it.
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r74631 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-02 22:37:16 +0200 (Mi, 02 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6821: fix signature of PyBuffer_Release().
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r74632 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-03 09:27:26 +0200 (Do, 03 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6828: fix wrongly highlighted blocks.
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r74633 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-03 14:31:39 +0200 (Do, 03 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6757: complete the list of types that marshal can serialize.
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r74652 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 13:25:37 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6756: add some info about the "acct" parameter.
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r74653 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 13:32:18 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6777: dont discourage usage of Exception.args or promote usage of Exception.message.
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r74666 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-05 11:04:09 +0200 (Sa, 05 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6841: remove duplicated word.
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r74671 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-05 18:47:17 +0200 (Sa, 05 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6843: add link from filterwarnings to where the meaning of the arguments is covered.
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r74737 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-09 18:49:13 +0200 (Mi, 09 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Properly document copy and deepcopy as functions.
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r74739 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-11 09:55:20 +0200 (Fr, 11 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Move function back to its section.
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r74779 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 18:13:36 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Change to tutorial wording for reading text / binary files on Windows. Issue #6301.
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r74781 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 18:46:19 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Note that sys._getframe is not guaranteed to exist in all implementations of Python, and a corresponding note in inspect.currentframe. Issue 6712.
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r74782 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 19:07:46 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Tutorial tweaks. Issue 6849.
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r74784 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-13 20:15:07 +0200 (So, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Typo fix.
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r74791 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-14 16:08:54 +0200 (Mo, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6574: list the future features in a table.
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r74793 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-14 16:50:47 +0200 (Mo, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6908: fix association of hashlib hash attributes.
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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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r74832 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 17:57:46 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Rewrap long lines.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index c58505a..4f6ddcf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -863,7 +863,8 @@
name, together with a few common aliases, and the languages for which the
encoding is likely used. Neither the list of aliases nor the list of languages
is meant to be exhaustive. Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in
-case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases.
+case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases; therefore,
+e.g. ``'utf-8'`` is a valid alias for the ``'utf_8'`` codec.
Many of the character sets support the same languages. They vary in individual
characters (e.g. whether the EURO SIGN is supported or not), and in the