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  r59606 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-29 11:57:00 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Some cleanup in the docs.
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  r59611 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-12-29 19:49:21 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
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  r59612 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-29 23:09:34 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Simpler documentation for itertools.tee().  Should be backported.
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  r59613 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-29 23:16:24 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Improve docs for itertools.groupby().  The use of xrange(0) to create a unique object is less obvious than object().
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  r59620 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:47:07 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Added wininst-9.0.exe executable for VS 2008
  Integrated bdist_wininst into PCBuild9 directory
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  r59621 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:51:18 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Moved PCbuild directory to PC/VS7.1
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  r59622 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:59:26 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fix paths for build bot
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  r59623 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 16:02:41 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fix paths for build bot, part 2
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  r59624 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 16:18:55 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Renamed PCBuild9 directory to PCBuild
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ossaudiodev.rst b/Doc/library/ossaudiodev.rst
index 7be838b..e23b049 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ossaudiodev.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ossaudiodev.rst
@@ -11,33 +11,33 @@ This module allows you to access the OSS (Open Sound System) audio interface.
 OSS is available for a wide range of open-source and commercial Unices, and is
 the standard audio interface for Linux and recent versions of FreeBSD.
 
-.. % Things will get more complicated for future Linux versions, since
-.. % ALSA is in the standard kernel as of 2.5.x.  Presumably if you
-.. % use ALSA, you'll have to make sure its OSS compatibility layer
-.. % is active to use ossaudiodev, but you're gonna need it for the vast
-.. % majority of Linux audio apps anyways.
-.. % 
-.. % Sounds like things are also complicated for other BSDs.  In response
-.. % to my python-dev query, Thomas Wouters said:
-.. % 
-.. % > Likewise, googling shows OpenBSD also uses OSS/Free -- the commercial
-.. % > OSS installation manual tells you to remove references to OSS/Free from the
-.. % > kernel :)
-.. % 
-.. % but Aleksander Piotrowsk actually has an OpenBSD box, and he quotes
-.. % from its <soundcard.h>:
-.. % >  * WARNING!  WARNING!
-.. % >  * This is an OSS (Linux) audio emulator.
-.. % >  * Use the Native NetBSD API for developing new code, and this
-.. % >  * only for compiling Linux programs.
-.. % 
-.. % There's also an ossaudio manpage on OpenBSD that explains things
-.. % further.  Presumably NetBSD and OpenBSD have a different standard
-.. % audio interface.  That's the great thing about standards, there are so
-.. % many to choose from ... ;-)
-.. % 
-.. % This probably all warrants a footnote or two, but I don't understand
-.. % things well enough right now to write it!   --GPW
+.. Things will get more complicated for future Linux versions, since
+   ALSA is in the standard kernel as of 2.5.x.  Presumably if you
+   use ALSA, you'll have to make sure its OSS compatibility layer
+   is active to use ossaudiodev, but you're gonna need it for the vast
+   majority of Linux audio apps anyways.
+   
+   Sounds like things are also complicated for other BSDs.  In response
+   to my python-dev query, Thomas Wouters said:
+   
+   > Likewise, googling shows OpenBSD also uses OSS/Free -- the commercial
+   > OSS installation manual tells you to remove references to OSS/Free from the
+   > kernel :)
+   
+   but Aleksander Piotrowsk actually has an OpenBSD box, and he quotes
+   from its <soundcard.h>:
+   >  * WARNING!  WARNING!
+   >  * This is an OSS (Linux) audio emulator.
+   >  * Use the Native NetBSD API for developing new code, and this
+   >  * only for compiling Linux programs.
+   
+   There's also an ossaudio manpage on OpenBSD that explains things
+   further.  Presumably NetBSD and OpenBSD have a different standard
+   audio interface.  That's the great thing about standards, there are so
+   many to choose from ... ;-)
+   
+   This probably all warrants a footnote or two, but I don't understand
+   things well enough right now to write it!   --GPW
 
 
 .. seealso::
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ the standard audio interface for Linux and recent versions of FreeBSD.
    second is required.  This is a historical artifact for compatibility with the
    older :mod:`linuxaudiodev` module which :mod:`ossaudiodev` supersedes.
 
+   .. XXX it might also be motivated
+      by my unfounded-but-still-possibly-true belief that the default
+      audio device varies unpredictably across operating systems.  -GW
+
 
 .. function:: openmixer([device])