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  r60151 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-21 14:11:15 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  A bunch of header files were not listed as dependencies for object files. Changes to files like Parser/parser.h weren't picked up by make.
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  r60152 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 15:16:46 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  #1087741: make mmap.mmap the type of mmap objects, not a
  factory function. Allow it to be subclassed.
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  r60153 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 15:18:14 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  mmap is an extension module.
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  r60154 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:28:13 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix example.
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  r60155 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:34:07 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1555501: document plistlib and move it to the general library.
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  r60156 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:36:00 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a stub for bundlebuilder documentation.
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  r60157 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:46:58 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Removing bundlebuilder docs again -- it's not to be used anymore (see #779825).
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  r60158 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:51:51 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #997912: acknowledge nested scopes in tutorial.
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  r60159 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 18:02:26 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix: #1836: Off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingFileHandler rollover calculation. Patch thanks to Kathryn M. Kowalski.
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  r60161 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:13:03 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Adapt pydoc to new doc URLs.
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  r60162 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:17:00 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix old link.
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  r60163 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:22:06 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1726198: replace while 1: fp.readline() with file iteration.
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  r60164 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:29:23 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Clarify $ behavior in re docstring. #1631394.
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  r60165 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 18:39:22 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Minor documentation change - hyperlink tidied up.
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  r60166 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:42:40 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1530959: change distutils build dir for --with-pydebug python builds.
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  r60167 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 19:16:05 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Updated to include news on recent logging fixes and documentation changes.
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  r60168 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:35:49 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
  second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
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  r60170 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:36:51 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add NEWS entry for #1882.
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  r60172 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:41:24 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Use original location of document, which has translations.
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  r60173 | walter.doerwald | 2008-01-21 21:18:04 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Follow PEP 8 in module docstring.
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  r60175 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 21:20:53 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Adapt to latest doctools refactoring.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst
index 37391d0..8ec9885 100644
--- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ substring by assigning to a slice: ``obj[i1:i2] = '...'``.  You can also read
 and write data starting at the current file position, and :meth:`seek` through
 the file to different positions.
 
-A memory-mapped file is created by the :func:`mmap` function, which is different
+A memory-mapped file is created by the :class:`mmap` constructor, which is different
 on Unix and on Windows.  In either case you must provide a file descriptor for a
 file opened for update. If you wish to map an existing Python file object, use
 its :meth:`fileno` method to obtain the correct value for the *fileno*
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ parameter.  Otherwise, you can open the file using the :func:`os.open` function,
 which returns a file descriptor directly (the file still needs to be closed when
 done).
 
-For both the Unix and Windows versions of the function, *access* may be
+For both the Unix and Windows versions of the constructor, *access* may be
 specified as an optional keyword parameter. *access* accepts one of three
 values: :const:`ACCESS_READ`, :const:`ACCESS_WRITE`, or :const:`ACCESS_COPY` to
 specify readonly, write-through or copy-on-write memory respectively. *access*
@@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ not update the underlying file.
 
 To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length.
 
-
-.. function:: mmap(fileno, length[, tagname[, access[, offset]]])
+.. class:: mmap(fileno, length[, tagname[, access[, offset]]])
 
    **(Windows version)** Maps *length* bytes from the file specified by the file
-   handle *fileno*, and returns a mmap object.  If *length* is larger than the
+   handle *fileno*, and creates a mmap object.  If *length* is larger than the
    current size of the file, the file is extended to contain *length* bytes.  If
    *length* is ``0``, the maximum length of the map is the current size of the
    file, except that if the file is empty Windows raises an exception (you cannot
@@ -59,12 +58,12 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
    *offset* must be a multiple of the ALLOCATIONGRANULARITY.
 
 
-.. function:: mmap(fileno, length[, flags[, prot[, access[, offset]]]])
+.. class:: mmap(fileno, length[, flags[, prot[, access[, offset]]]])
    :noindex:
 
    **(Unix version)** Maps *length* bytes from the file specified by the file
    descriptor *fileno*, and returns a mmap object.  If *length* is ``0``, the
-   maximum length of the map will be the current size of the file when :func:`mmap`
+   maximum length of the map will be the current size of the file when :class:`mmap`
    is called.
 
    *flags* specifies the nature of the mapping. :const:`MAP_PRIVATE` creates a
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
    be relative to the offset from the beginning of the file. *offset* defaults to 0.
    *offset* must be a multiple of the PAGESIZE or ALLOCATIONGRANULARITY.
    
-   This example shows a simple way of using :func:`mmap`::
+   This example shows a simple way of using :class:`mmap`::
 
       import mmap