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  r61913 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-03-25 22:14:42 +0100 (Tue, 25 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Merged the ACKS from py3k
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  r61915 | thomas.heller | 2008-03-25 22:18:39 +0100 (Tue, 25 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Make _ctypes.c PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
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  r61916 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-03-25 22:55:50 +0100 (Tue, 25 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Opps! I merged the revisions, but forgot to add
  the header to ACKS
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  r61918 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-03-26 01:16:50 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Minor docstring typos
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  r61919 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-03-26 01:30:02 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r61922 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-26 05:55:51 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 6 lines

  Try to get this test to be less flaky.  It was failing sometimes because
  the connect would succeed before the timeout occurred.  Try using an
  address and port that hopefully doesn't exist to ensure we get no response.
  If this doesn't work, we can use a public address close to python.org
  and hopefully that address never gets taken.
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  r61923 | jerry.seutter | 2008-03-26 06:03:03 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Changed test so it no longer runs as a side effect of importing.
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  r61924 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-26 06:19:41 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Ensure that the mailbox is closed to prevent problems on Windows with removing
  an open file.  This doesn't seem to be a problem in 2.6, but that appears
  to be somewhat accidental (specific to reference counting).  When this
  gets merged to 3.0, it will make the 3.0 code simpler.
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  r61925 | jerry.seutter | 2008-03-26 06:32:51 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Changed test so it no longer runs as a side effect of importing.
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  r61926 | jerry.seutter | 2008-03-26 06:58:14 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Changed test so it no longer runs as a side effect of importing.
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  r61928 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-26 10:04:36 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Josiah.
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  r61929 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-26 10:32:46 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Add an example for an RFC 822 continuation.
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  r61931 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-03-26 12:57:47 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Added help options to PDB
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  r61935 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:32:49 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Prepare integration of bytearray backport branch
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  r61938 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:50:43 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Removed merge tracking for "svnmerge" for
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-bytearray
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  r61943 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-26 13:57:47 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix and simplify error handling, silencing a compiler warning.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
index aa4dc7c..a7ad2e7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -29,18 +29,20 @@ easily.
 
 The configuration file consists of sections, led by a ``[section]`` header and
 followed by ``name: value`` entries, with continuations in the style of
-:rfc:`822`; ``name=value`` is also accepted.  Note that leading whitespace is
-removed from values. The optional values can contain format strings which refer
-to other values in the same section, or values in a special ``DEFAULT`` section.
-Additional defaults can be provided on initialization and retrieval.  Lines
-beginning with ``'#'`` or ``';'`` are ignored and may be used to provide
-comments.
+:rfc:`822` (see section 3.1.1, "LONG HEADER FIELDS"); ``name=value`` is also
+accepted.  Note that leading whitespace is removed from values. The optional
+values can contain format strings which refer to other values in the same
+section, or values in a special ``DEFAULT`` section.  Additional defaults can be
+provided on initialization and retrieval.  Lines beginning with ``'#'`` or
+``';'`` are ignored and may be used to provide comments.
 
 For example::
 
    [My Section]
    foodir: %(dir)s/whatever
    dir=frob
+   long: this value continues
+      in the next line
 
 would resolve the ``%(dir)s`` to the value of ``dir`` (``frob`` in this case).
 All reference expansions are done on demand.