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  r87101 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-06 23:02:48 +0100 (Mo, 06 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove visible XXX comments.
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  r87146 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-09 19:08:43 +0100 (Do, 09 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix "seperate".
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  r87156 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-10 11:01:44 +0100 (Fr, 10 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10668: fix wrong call of __init__.
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  r87172 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-11 20:10:30 +0100 (Sa, 11 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Avoid AttributeError(_closed) when a TemporaryDirectory is deallocated whose mkdtemp call failed.
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  r87175 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-11 23:19:34 +0100 (Sa, 11 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r87371 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-18 17:21:58 +0100 (Sa, 18 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r87378 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-18 18:51:28 +0100 (Sa, 18 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10723: add missing builtin exceptions.
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  r87522 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:16:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Replace sys.maxint mention by sys.maxsize.
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  r87523 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:18:24 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove confusing paragraph -- this is relevant only to advanced users anyway and does not belong into the tutorial.
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  r87524 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:29:19 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix advice: call PyType_Ready to fill in ob_type of custom types.
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  r87526 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 11:38:33 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10777: fix iteration over dict keys while mutating the dict.
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  r87527 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 11:56:20 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10768: fix ScrolledText widget construction, and make the example work from the interactive shell.
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  r87528 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:02:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Add news entry and clarify another.
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  r87530 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:06:07 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10767: update README in crashers; not all may have a bug entry and/or be fixed.
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  r87531 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:08:17 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10742: document readonly attribute of memoryviews.
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  r87532 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:15:49 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10781: clarify that *encoding* is not a parameter for Node objects in general.
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  r87533 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:38:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove history; adapt a bit more to reST, since this will once be part of the dev guide.
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  r87534 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:48:53 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Rewrap.
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  r87535 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:49:41 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10739: document that on Windows, socket.makefile() does not make a file that has a true file descriptor usable where such a thing is expected.
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  r87536 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:53:25 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10609: fix non-working dbm example.
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  r87581 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-30 18:36:17 +0100 (Do, 30 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix NameErrors.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst
index 6926ca6..c7c7347 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst
@@ -86,10 +86,8 @@ then prints out the contents of the database::
    # Notice how the value is now in bytes.
    assert db['www.cnn.com'] == b'Cable News Network'
 
-   # Loop through contents.  Other dictionary methods
-   # such as .keys(), .values() also work.
-   for k, v in db.iteritems():
-       print(k, '\t', v)
+   # Often-used methods of the dict interface work too.
+   print(db.get('python.org', b'not present'))
 
    # Storing a non-string key or value will raise an exception (most
    # likely a TypeError).