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  r67654 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 16:42:09 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4457: rewrite __import__() documentation.
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  r67676 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:03:03 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  specify how things are copied
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  r67677 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:05:11 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  revert unrelated change to installer script
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  r67681 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-12-09 15:03:10 -0600 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add simple unittests for Request
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  r67692 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-10 18:03:42 -0600 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #1030250: correctly pass the dry_run option to the mkpath() function.
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  r67725 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-12 22:02:20 -0600 (Fri, 12 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix incorrect example
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  r67761 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-14 11:26:04 -0600 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix missing bracket
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  r67784 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:33:58 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4446: document "platforms" argument for setup().
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  r67785 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:36:11 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4611: fix typo.
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  r67787 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:58:59 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4578: fix has_key() usage in compiler package.
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  r67788 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 03:07:39 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4568: remove limitation in varargs callback example.
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  r67802 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-15 16:29:14 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #3632: the "pyo" macro from gdbinit can now run when the GIL is released.

  Patch by haypo.
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  r67848 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:28:56 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r67849 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:31:35 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  _call_method -> _callmethod and _get_value to _getvalue
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  r67850 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-12-19 03:06:07 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 9 lines

  Fix-up and clean-up docs for int.bit_length().

  * Replace dramatic footnote with in-line comment about possible round-off errors in logarithms of large numbers.
  * Add comments to the pure python code equivalent.
  * replace floor() with int() in the mathematical equivalent so the type is correct (should be an int, not a float).
  * add abs() to the mathematical equivalent so that it matches the previous line that it is supposed to be equivalent to.
  * make one combined example with a negative input.
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  r67862 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:48:02 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  copy sentence from docstring
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  r67863 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:51:26 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add headings
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  r67864 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:57:19 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  beef up docstring
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  r67880 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:49:24 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove redundant sentence
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  r67882 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:59:49 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add some recent releases to the list
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
index 47798e9..1d9b42d 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
@@ -677,11 +677,10 @@ indexes at which certain conditions are met::
         if line.strip() == '':
             print('Blank line at line #%i' % i)
 
-
-``sorted(iterable, [cmp=None], [key=None], [reverse=False)`` collects all the
-elements of the iterable into a list, sorts the list, and returns the sorted
-result.  The ``cmp``, ``key``, and ``reverse`` arguments are passed through to
-the constructed list's ``.sort()`` method. ::
+``sorted(iterable, [key=None], [reverse=False])`` collects all the elements of
+the iterable into a list, sorts the list, and returns the sorted result.  The
+``key``, and ``reverse`` arguments are passed through to the constructed list's
+``.sort()`` method. ::
 
     >>> import random
     >>> # Generate 8 random numbers between [0, 10000)