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  r58745 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 10:19:33 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  #1364: os.lstat is available on Windows too, as an alias to os.stat.
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  r58750 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 12:48:10 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of import tests for bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1293 and bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1342
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  r58751 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 13:11:06 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Removed non ASCII text from test as requested by Guido. Sorry :/
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  r58753 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 13:37:02 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix markup glitch.
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  r58757 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:08:14 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Fix bug introduced in revision 58385.  Database keys could no longer
  have NULL bytes in them.  Replace the errant strdup with a
  malloc+memcpy.  Adds a unit test for the correct behavior.
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  r58758 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:15:36 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Undo revision 58533 58534 fixes.  Those were a workaround for
  a problem introduced by 58385.
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  r58759 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:17:47 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  false "fix" undone as correct problem was found and fixed.
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  r58765 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-02 01:24:59 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Added more file-handling related cross-references.
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  r58766 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-02 03:09:12 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix for bug 1705170 - contextmanager swallowing StopIteration (2.5 backport candidate)
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  r58784 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:10:24 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
  --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes" because the
  bundled libffi sources are too old.
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  r58785 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:11:23 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Enable the full ctypes c_longdouble tests again.
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  r58796 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-02 13:06:17 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Make "hashable" a glossary entry and clarify docs on __cmp__, __eq__ and __hash__.
  I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
  Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index 4d58e13..f0d5d12 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Bookkeeping functions:
 .. function:: seed([x])
 
    Initialize the basic random number generator. Optional argument *x* can be any
-   hashable object. If *x* is omitted or ``None``, current system time is used;
+   :term:`hashable` object. If *x* is omitted or ``None``, current system time is used;
    current system time is also used to initialize the generator when the module is
    first imported.  If randomness sources are provided by the operating system,
    they are used instead of the system time (see the :func:`os.urandom` function
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Functions for sequences:
    (the sample) to be partitioned into grand prize and second place winners (the
    subslices).
 
-   Members of the population need not be hashable or unique.  If the population
+   Members of the population need not be :term:`hashable` or unique.  If the population
    contains repeats, then each occurrence is a possible selection in the sample.
 
    To choose a sample from a range of integers, use an :func:`range` object as an