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  r67348 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-22 20:09:41 -0600 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  raise a better error
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  r67355 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-23 13:17:25 -0600 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4392: fix parameter name.
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  r67359 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-23 15:57:30 -0600 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4399: fix typo.
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  r67362 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-11-23 18:41:43 -0600 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Document PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN for PyArg_ParseTuple.
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  r67364 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-23 19:16:29 -0600 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  replace reference to debugger-hooks
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  r67365 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-23 22:09:03 -0600 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  #4396 make the parser module correctly validate the with syntax
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  r67367 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-24 10:16:07 -0600 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r67368 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-24 13:56:47 -0600 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4404: make clear what "path" is.
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  r67398 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-26 11:39:17 -0600 (Wed, 26 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo in sqlite3 docs
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  r67423 | jesse.noller | 2008-11-28 12:59:35 -0600 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  issue4238: bsd support for cpu_count
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  r67424 | christian.heimes | 2008-11-28 13:33:33 -0600 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Retain copyright of processing examples. This was requested by a Debian maintainer during packaging of the multiprocessing package for 2.4/2.5
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  r67432 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-28 17:18:46 -0600 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  SVN format 9 is the same it seems
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  r67440 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-11-28 17:42:59 -0600 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 4 lines

  Move definition int sval into branch of ifdef where it is used.

  Otherwise, you get a warning about an undefined variable.
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  r67441 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-11-28 18:09:16 -0600 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Reflow long lines.
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  r67444 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-28 20:03:32 -0600 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix a small typo in docstring
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  r67445 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-29 21:07:33 -0600 (Sat, 29 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  StringIO.close() stops you from using the buffer, too
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  r67454 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-30 08:43:23 -0600 (Sun, 30 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  note the version that works
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  r67455 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-11-30 13:28:27 -0600 (Sun, 30 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
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  r67457 | christian.heimes | 2008-11-30 15:16:28 -0600 (Sun, 30 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  w# requires Py_ssize_t
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  r67458 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-30 15:46:16 -0600 (Sun, 30 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  fix pyspecific extensions that were broken by Sphinx's grand renaming
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 81a3f35..3cc77bc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -805,10 +805,10 @@ Files and Directories
 
 .. function:: listdir(path)
 
-   Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory. The list
-   is in arbitrary order.  It does not include the special entries ``.`` and
-   ``..`` even if they are present in the directory. Availability: Unix,
-   Windows.
+   Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory given by
+   *path*.  The list is in arbitrary order.  It does not include the special
+   entries ``'.'`` and ``'..'`` even if they are present in the directory.
+   Availability: Unix, Windows.
 
    This function can be called with a bytes or string argument.  In the bytes
    case, all filenames will be listed as returned by the underlying API.  In the