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  r85530 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 17:32:05 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Refrain from using inline suites.
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  r85532 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7771: reference to documentation of dictview methods and operations.
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  r85533 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:07:41 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9683: remove broken dead code dealing with nested arguments removed from Py3k, and update the docs and docstrings accordingly.
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  r85534 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:19:43 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9801: document how list and dict proxies created by Managers behave w.r.t. mutable items.
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  r85538 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:35:46 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7303: add documentation for useful pkgutil functions and classes.
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  r85539 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:14 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix issue references.
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  r85540 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:37 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6798: fix wrong docs for the arguments to several trace events.
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  r85541 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:53:24 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #4968: updates to inspect.is* function docs.
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  r85542 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:01:15 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7790: move table of struct_time members to the actual description of struct_time.
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  r85543 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #4785: document strict argument of JSONDecoder, plus add object_pairs_hook in the docstrings.
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  r85546 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:58:45 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml().
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  r85547 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 20:00:35 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6098: Refrain from claiming DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
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  r85548 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 21:46:19 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10072: assume a bit less knowledge of the FTP protocol in the ftplib docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 9fa2d81..264d432 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1288,6 +1288,24 @@ their parent process exits.  The manager classes are defined in the
 
       Create a shared ``list`` object and return a proxy for it.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      Modifications to mutable values or items in dict and list proxies will not
+      be propagated through the manager, because the proxy has no way of knowing
+      when its values or items are modified.  To modify such an item, you can
+      re-assign the modified object to the container proxy::
+
+         # create a list proxy and append a mutable object (a dictionary)
+         lproxy = manager.list()
+         lproxy.append({})
+         # now mutate the dictionary
+         d = lproxy[0]
+         d['a'] = 1
+         d['b'] = 2
+         # at this point, the changes to d are not yet synced, but by
+         # reassigning the dictionary, the proxy is notified of the change
+         lproxy[0] = d
+
 
 Namespace objects
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