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2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index b0f8194..115ef81 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -465,11 +465,11 @@ Simulation of arrival times and service deliveries in a single server queue::
    <http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics.ipynb>`_
    a simulation of a marketplace by
    `Peter Norvig <http://norvig.com/bio.html>`_ that shows effective
-   use of many the tools and distributions provided by this module
+   use of many of the tools and distributions provided by this module
    (gauss, uniform, sample, betavariate, choice, triangular, and randrange).
 
    `A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python)
    <http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probability.ipynb>`_
    a tutorial by `Peter Norvig <http://norvig.com/bio.html>`_ covering
    the basics of probability theory, how to write simulations, and
-   performing data analysis using Python.
+   how to perform data analysis using Python.
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index b39bdf4..83a1f9b 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -60,11 +60,16 @@ objects:
    Remove all items from the list.  Equivalent to ``del a[:]``.
 
 
-.. method:: list.index(x)
+.. method:: list.index(x[, start[, end]])
    :noindex:
 
-   Return the index in the list of the first item whose value is *x*. It is an
-   error if there is no such item.
+   Return zero-based index in the list of the first item whose value is *x*.
+   Raises a :exc:`ValueError` if there is no such item.
+
+   The optional arguments *start* and *end* are interpreted as in the slice
+   notation and are used to limit the search to a particular subsequence of
+   *x*.  The returned index is computed relative to the beginning of the full
+   sequence rather than the *start* argument.
 
 
 .. method:: list.count(x)
@@ -103,6 +108,8 @@ An example that uses most of the list methods::
    [66.25, 333, -1, 333, 1, 1234.5, 333]
    >>> a.index(333)
    1
+   >>> a.index(333, 2)  # search for 333 starting at index 2
+   2
    >>> a.remove(333)
    >>> a
    [66.25, -1, 333, 1, 1234.5, 333]