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  r75365 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 22:16:16 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix broken links found by "make linkcheck".  scipy.org seems to be done right now, so I could not verify links going there.
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  r75394 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-13 20:10:59 +0200 (Di, 13 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r75402 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:51:48 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7125: fix typo.
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  r75403 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:57:46 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system().
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  r75418 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 20:48:32 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7116: str.join() takes an iterable.
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  r75459 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-17 10:57:43 +0200 (Sa, 17 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix refleaks in _ctypes PyCSimpleType_New, which fixes the refleak seen in test___all__.
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  r75484 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-18 09:58:12 +0200 (So, 18 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix missing word.
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  r75592 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:05:48 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix punctuation.
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  r75593 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:06:49 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Revert unintended change.
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  r75594 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:02 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r75595 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:56 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix duplicate target.
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  r75596 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 10:05:04 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Add a new directive marking up implementation details and start using it.
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  r75600 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:01:46 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Make it more robust.
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  r75602 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Document new directive.
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  r75603 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:23 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Allow short form with text as argument.
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  r75604 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:36:50 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix stylesheet for multi-paragraph impl-details.
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  r75605 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:48:10 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Use "impl-detail" directive where applicable.
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  r75606 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:00:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #6324: membership test tries iteration via __iter__.
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  r75607 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:04:09 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7088: document new functions in signal as Unix-only.
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  r75610 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:27:24 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Reorder __slots__ fine print and add a clarification.
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  r75611 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:42:32 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7035: improve docs of the various <method>_errors() functions, and give them docstrings.
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  r75612 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:52:15 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7156: document curses as Unix-only.
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  r75613 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:54:35 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #6977: getopt does not support optional option arguments.
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  r75616 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:17:05 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Add proper references.
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  r75617 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:20:55 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Make printout margin important.
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  r75623 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-23 10:14:44 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7188: fix optionxform() docs.
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  r75627 | fred.drake | 2009-10-23 15:04:51 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines

  add further note about what's passed to optionxform
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  r75640 | neil.schemenauer | 2009-10-23 21:58:17 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines

  Improve some docstrings in the 'warnings' module.
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  r75647 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-24 12:04:19 +0200 (Sa, 24 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r75696 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-25 21:25:43 +0100 (So, 25 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a demo.
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  r75795 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 16:10:22 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a strange mis-edit.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/getopt.rst b/Doc/library/getopt.rst
index 7f6b670..a360384 100644
--- a/Doc/library/getopt.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/getopt.rst
@@ -36,12 +36,13 @@ exception:
    *longopts*, if specified, must be a list of strings with the names of the
    long options which should be supported.  The leading ``'--'`` characters
    should not be included in the option name.  Long options which require an
-   argument should be followed by an equal sign (``'='``).  To accept only long
-   options, *shortopts* should be an empty string.  Long options on the command line
-   can be recognized so long as they provide a prefix of the option name that
-   matches exactly one of the accepted options.  For example, if *longopts* is
-   ``['foo', 'frob']``, the option :option:`--fo` will match as :option:`--foo`,
-   but :option:`--f` will not match uniquely, so :exc:`GetoptError` will be raised.
+   argument should be followed by an equal sign (``'='``).  Optional arguments
+   are not supported.  To accept only long options, *shortopts* should be an
+   empty string.  Long options on the command line can be recognized so long as
+   they provide a prefix of the option name that matches exactly one of the
+   accepted options.  For example, if *longopts* is ``['foo', 'frob']``, the
+   option :option:`--fo` will match as :option:`--foo`, but :option:`--f` will
+   not match uniquely, so :exc:`GetoptError` will be raised.
 
    The return value consists of two elements: the first is a list of ``(option,
    value)`` pairs; the second is the list of program arguments left after the