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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/warnings.rst b/Doc/library/warnings.rst
index 3868b74..866da5c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/warnings.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/warnings.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 :mod:`warnings` --- Warning control
 ===================================
 
@@ -129,16 +128,16 @@
   +---------------+----------------------------------------------+
 
 * *message* is a string containing a regular expression that the warning message
-  must match (the match is compiled to always be  case-insensitive)
+  must match (the match is compiled to always be case-insensitive).
 
 * *category* is a class (a subclass of :exc:`Warning`) of which the warning
-  category must be a subclass in order to match
+  category must be a subclass in order to match.
 
 * *module* is a string containing a regular expression that the module name must
-  match (the match is compiled to be case-sensitive)
+  match (the match is compiled to be case-sensitive).
 
 * *lineno* is an integer that the line number where the warning occurred must
-  match, or ``0`` to match all line numbers
+  match, or ``0`` to match all line numbers.
 
 Since the :exc:`Warning` class is derived from the built-in :exc:`Exception`
 class, to turn a warning into an error we simply raise ``category(message)``.
@@ -300,10 +299,11 @@
 
 .. function:: formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno[, line])
 
-   Format a warning the standard way.  This returns a string  which may contain
-   embedded newlines and ends in a newline.  *line* is
-   a line of source code to be included in the warning message; if *line* is not supplied,
-   :func:`formatwarning` will try to read the line specified by *filename* and *lineno*.
+   Format a warning the standard way.  This returns a string which may contain
+   embedded newlines and ends in a newline.  *line* is a line of source code to
+   be included in the warning message; if *line* is not supplied,
+   :func:`formatwarning` will try to read the line specified by *filename* and
+   *lineno*.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.6
       Added the *line* argument.
@@ -311,10 +311,11 @@
 
 .. function:: filterwarnings(action[, message[, category[, module[, lineno[, append]]]]])
 
-   Insert an entry into the list of warnings filters.  The entry is inserted at the
-   front by default; if *append* is true, it is inserted at the end. This checks
-   the types of the arguments, compiles the message and module regular expressions,
-   and inserts them as a tuple in the  list of warnings filters.  Entries closer to
+   Insert an entry into the list of :ref:`warnings filter specifications
+   <warning-filter>`.  The entry is inserted at the front by default; if
+   *append* is true, it is inserted at the end.  This checks the types of the
+   arguments, compiles the *message* and *module* regular expressions, and
+   inserts them as a tuple in the list of warnings filters.  Entries closer to
    the front of the list override entries later in the list, if both match a
    particular warning.  Omitted arguments default to a value that matches
    everything.
@@ -322,10 +323,11 @@
 
 .. function:: simplefilter(action[, category[, lineno[, append]]])
 
-   Insert a simple entry into the list of warnings filters. The meaning of the
-   function parameters is as for :func:`filterwarnings`, but regular expressions
-   are not needed as the filter inserted always matches any message in any module
-   as long as the category and line number match.
+   Insert a simple entry into the list of :ref:`warnings filter specifications
+   <warning-filter>`.  The meaning of the function parameters is as for
+   :func:`filterwarnings`, but regular expressions are not needed as the filter
+   inserted always matches any message in any module as long as the category and
+   line number match.
 
 
 .. function:: resetwarnings()