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  r74779 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 11:13:36 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Change to tutorial wording for reading text / binary files on Windows. Issue #6301.
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  r74780 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 11:40:02 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Objects that compare equal automatically pass or fail assertAlmostEqual and assertNotAlmostEqual tests on unittest.TestCase. Issue 6567.
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  r74781 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 11:46:19 -0500 (Sun, 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 12:07:46 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Tutorial tweaks. Issue 6849.
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  r74783 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 12:28:35 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromName honors the loader suiteClass attribute. Issue 6866.
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  r74784 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-13 13:15:07 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fix.
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  r74785 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 14:07:03 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Test discovery in unittest will only attempt to import modules that are importable; i.e. their names are valid Python identifiers. If an import fails during discovery this will be recorded as an error and test discovery will continue. Issue 6568.
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  r74786 | michael.foord | 2009-09-13 14:08:18 -0500 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Remove an extraneous space in unittest documentation.
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  r74793 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-14 09:50:47 -0500 (Mon, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6908: fix association of hashlib hash attributes.
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  r74795 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-14 22:36:26 -0500 (Mon, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Py_SetPythonHome uses static storage #6913
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  r74811 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-15 15:26:59 -0500 (Tue, 15 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add Armin Ronacher.
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  r74860 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-16 21:46:54 -0500 (Wed, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  kill bare except
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  r74861 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-16 22:18:28 -0500 (Wed, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  pep 8 defaults
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  r74863 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-16 22:27:33 -0500 (Wed, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  rationalize a bit
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  r74876 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 11:15:53 -0500 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6932: remove paragraph that advises relying on __del__ being called.
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  r74886 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-17 16:33:46 -0500 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  use macros
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  r74896 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 02:22:41 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6936: for interactive use, quit() is just fine.
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  r74901 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 04:14:52 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6905: use better exception messages in inspect when the argument is of the wrong type.
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  r74903 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 04:18:27 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6938: "ident" is always a string, so use a format code which works.
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  r74908 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 08:57:11 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Use str.format() to fix beginner's mistake with %-style string formatting.
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  r74912 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 11:19:56 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Optimize optimization and fix method name in docstring.
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  r74930 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 16:21:41 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6925: rewrite docs for locals() and vars() a bit.
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  r74933 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 16:35:59 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6930: clarify description about byteorder handling in UTF decoder routines.
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  r74943 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 02:35:07 -0500 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6944: the argument to PyArg_ParseTuple should be a tuple, otherwise a SystemError is set.  Also clean up another usage of PyArg_ParseTuple.
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  r74946 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 03:43:16 -0500 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Update bug tracker reference.
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  r74952 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 05:42:34 -0500 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6946: fix duplicate index entries for datetime classes.
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  r74953 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 07:04:16 -0500 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Fix references to threading.enumerate().
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  r74954 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 08:13:56 -0500 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add Doug.
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  r74955 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 08:20:49 -0500 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add Mark Summerfield.
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  r75015 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-22 05:55:08 -0500 (Tue, 22 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Fix encoding name.
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  r75019 | vinay.sajip | 2009-09-22 12:23:41 -0500 (Tue, 22 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed a typo, and added sections on optimization and using arbitrary objects as messages.
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  r75032 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-22 17:15:28 -0500 (Tue, 22 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  fix typos/rephrase
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  r75068 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-25 21:57:59 -0500 (Fri, 25 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  comment out ugly xxx
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  r75076 | vinay.sajip | 2009-09-26 09:53:32 -0500 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Tidied up name of parameter in StreamHandler
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  r75095 | michael.foord | 2009-09-27 14:15:41 -0500 (Sun, 27 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Test creation moved from TestProgram.parseArgs to TestProgram.createTests exclusively. Issue 6956.
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  r75098 | michael.foord | 2009-09-27 15:08:23 -0500 (Sun, 27 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Documentation improvement for load_tests protocol in unittest. Issue 6515.
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  r75102 | skip.montanaro | 2009-09-27 21:12:27 -0500 (Sun, 27 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Patch from Thomas Barr so that csv.Sniffer will set doublequote property.
  Closes issue 6606.
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  r75129 | vinay.sajip | 2009-09-29 02:08:54 -0500 (Tue, 29 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #7014: logging: Improved IronPython 2.6 compatibility.
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  r75139 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-09-29 13:53:24 -0500 (Tue, 29 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue 7008: Better document str.title and show how to work around the apostrophe problem.
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  r75230 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-10-04 08:38:38 -0500 (Sun, 04 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  test logging
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diff --git a/Doc/documenting/markup.rst b/Doc/documenting/markup.rst
index 3577c96..421971a 100644
--- a/Doc/documenting/markup.rst
+++ b/Doc/documenting/markup.rst
@@ -597,8 +597,10 @@ units as well as normal text:
    An important bit of information about an API that a user should be aware of
    when using whatever bit of API the warning pertains to.  The content of the
    directive should be written in complete sentences and include all appropriate
-   punctuation.  This should only be chosen over ``note`` for information
-   regarding the possibility of crashes, data loss, or security implications.
+   punctuation.  In the interest of not scaring users away from pages filled
+   with warnings, this directive should only be chosen over ``note`` for
+   information regarding the possibility of crashes, data loss, or security
+   implications.
 
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