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  r65012 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-16 15:24:06 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Apply patch for issue 3090: ARCHFLAGS parsing incorrect
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  r65035 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-16 23:19:28 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3045: fix pydoc behavior for TEMP path with spaces.
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  r65037 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-16 23:31:41 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #1608818: errno can get set by every call to readdir().
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  r65038 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 00:04:20 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3305: self->stream can be NULL.
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  r65039 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 00:09:17 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3345: fix docstring.
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  r65040 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 00:33:18 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3312: fix two sqlite3 crashes.
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  r65048 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 01:35:54 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3388: add a paragraph about using "with" for file objects.
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  r65057 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-17 05:13:05 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  news note for r63052
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  r65077 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-17 23:01:05 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix issue 3395, update _debugInfo to be _debug_info
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  r65091 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-18 07:48:03 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Last bit of a fix for issue3381 (addon for my patch in r65061)
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  r65092 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 10:59:06 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65093 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:00:00 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65094 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:00:35 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65095 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:01:10 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65097 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 12:20:59 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove duplicate entry in __all__.
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  r65098 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 12:29:30 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Correct attribute name.
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  r65099 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 13:15:06 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Document the different meaning of precision for {:f} and {:g}.
  Also document how inf and nan are formatted. #3404.
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  r65127 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:42:03 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Improve accuracy of gamma test function
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  r65128 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:43:00 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add recipe to the itertools docs.
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  r65131 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 12:08:55 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3378: in case of no memory, don't leak even more memory. :)
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  r65133 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:39:10 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3302: fix segfaults when passing None for arguments that can't
  be NULL for the C functions.
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  r65134 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:46:12 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3303: fix crash with invalid Py_DECREF in strcoll().
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  r65135 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:00:22 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3319: don't raise ZeroDivisionError if number of rounds is so
  low that benchtime is zero.
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  r65136 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:09:42 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3323: mention that if inheriting from a class without __slots__,
  the subclass will have a __dict__ available too.
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  r65139 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:48:44 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add ordering info for findall and finditer.
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  r65149 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:21:57 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix compress() recipe in docs to use itertools.
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  r65150 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:58:47 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Clean-up itertools docs and recipes.
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  r65151 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-20 02:22:08 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 9 lines

  fix issue3120 - don't truncate handles on 64-bit Windows.

  This is still messy, realistically PC/_subprocess.c should never cast pointers
  to python numbers and back at all.

  I don't have a 64-bit windows build environment because microsoft apparently
  thinks that should cost money.  Time to watch the buildbots.  It builds and
  passes tests on 32-bit windows.
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  r65155 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-20 13:50:29 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #926501: add info where to put the docstring.
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  r65158 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 21:35:23 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix a couple of names in error messages that were wrong
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  r65159 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 22:39:36 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix misspeeld method name (negative)
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  r65176 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-21 23:36:24 +0200 (Mon, 21 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  Increment version number in NEWS file, and move items that were added after 2.6b2.

  (I thought there was a script to automate this kind of updates)
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  r65177 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-22 00:00:38 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue2378: pdb would delete free variables when stepping into a class statement.

  The problem was introduced by r53954, the correction is to restore the symmetry between
  PyFrame_FastToLocals and PyFrame_LocalsToFast
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  r65178 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-22 00:05:34 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  don't use assert statement
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  r65183 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:00 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix buglet in fix for issue3381
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  r65184 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:33 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix build issue on OSX 10.4, somehow this wasn't committed before.
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  r65187 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 20:54:02 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact.
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  r65188 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:00:47 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Tuples now have both count() and index().
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  r65189 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:03:05 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix credits for math.sum()
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  r65190 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:18:50 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  One more attribution.
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  r65192 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 01:44:37 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  remove unneeded import
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  r65194 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 15:25:06 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  use isinstance
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index a2e9b02..ab11a83 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,14 @@ Glossary
       of :class:`dict` much resembles that for :class:`list`, but the keys can
       be any object with a :meth:`__hash__` function, not just integers starting
       from zero.  Called a hash in Perl.
+
+   docstring
+      A docstring ("documentation string") is a string literal that appears as
+      the first thing in a class or function suite.  While ignored when the
+      suite is executed, it is recognized by the compiler and put into the
+      :attr:`__doc__` attribute of the class or function.  Since it is available
+      via introspection, it is the canonical place for documentation of the
+      object.
     
    duck-typing 
       Pythonic programming style that determines an object's type by inspection