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  r80605 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 19:22:16 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r80606 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:44:30 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 6 lines

  Fix doubled 'the'.
  Markup fixes to use :exc:, :option: in a few places.
    (Glitch: unittest.main's -c ends up a link to the Python
    interpreter's -c option.  Should we skip using :option: for that
    switch, or disable the auto-linking somehow?)
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  r80607 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:45:41 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various unittest items
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  r80608 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:18:05 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  update pypy description
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  r80609 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:30:59 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  update pypy url
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  r80642 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:49:09 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Always add space after RFC; reword paragraph
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  r80643 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:52:31 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 6 lines

  Reword paragraph to make its meaning clearer.

  Antoine Pitrou: is my version of the paragraph still correct?

  R. David Murray: is this more understandable than the previous version?
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  r80644 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:02:15 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typos
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  r80645 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:32:47 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fix; clarify by adding 'in that order'
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  r80646 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:33:40 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items; rearrange unittest section a bit
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  r80651 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:46:55 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Minor grammar re-wording
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  r80652 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:47:34 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add item
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  r80674 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 20:19:16 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r80684 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:05:52 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line

  Minor grammar fix
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  r80685 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:06:51 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line

  Describe memoryview
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  r80686 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-01 07:16:39 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 4 lines

  Fix attribution. Travis didn't do much and he did a bad work.
  (yes, this is a sensitive subject, sorry)
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  r80748 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-03 20:24:22 -0500 (Mon, 03 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add some more items; the urlparse change is added twice
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  r80852 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:09:47 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line

  Reword paragraph; fix filename, which should be pyconfig.h
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  r80854 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:10:56 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r80870 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 09:14:09 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Describe ElementTree 1.3; rearrange new-module sections; describe dict views as sets; small edits and items
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  r80872 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:21:59 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add 2 items; record ideas for two initial sections; clarify wording
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  r80873 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:27:57 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Change section title; point to unittest2
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  r80907 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 20:45:14 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add a new section on the development plan; add an item
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  r80915 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-07 05:15:51 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix some markup and a class name. Also, wrap a long line.
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  r80916 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 06:30:47 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line

  Re-word text
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  r80951 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:15:26 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add two items
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  r80952 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:35:55 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line

  Get accents correct
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  r80976 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:28:03 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add logging.dictConfig example; give up on writing a Ttk example
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  r80977 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:29:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fixes
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  r80985 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 10:39:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 7 lines

  Write summary of the 2.7 release; rewrite the future section some more;
  mention PYTHONWARNINGS env. var; tweak some examples for readability.

  And with this commit, the "What's New" is done... except for a
  complete read-through to polish the text, and fixing any reported errors,
  but those tasks can easily wait until after beta2.
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  r81038 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-09 16:09:40 -0500 (Sun, 09 May 2010) | 1 line

  finish clause
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  r81039 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:18:27 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fix; re-word a sentence
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  r81040 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:20:12 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Use title case
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  r81042 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 10:03:35 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Link to unittest2 article
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  r81053 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-10 14:59:22 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 2 lines

  Add a link on maketrans().
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  r81070 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 18:13:41 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r81104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:38:44 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line

  Revision pass: lots of edits, typo fixes, rearrangements
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  r81105 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:40:47 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line

  Let's call this done
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  r81114 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 08:56:07 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line

  Grammar fix
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  r81125 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 13:56:48 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line

  #8696: add documentation for logging.config.dictConfig (PEP 391)
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  r81245 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-16 18:31:16 -0500 (Sun, 16 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add cross-reference to later section
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  r81285 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-18 03:16:27 -0500 (Tue, 18 May 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed minor typo in ReST markup.
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  r81402 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-21 12:41:34 -0500 (Fri, 21 May 2010) | 1 line

  Updated logging documentation with more dictConfig information.
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  r81463 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-22 03:17:23 -0500 (Sat, 22 May 2010) | 1 line

  #8785: less confusing description of regex.find*.
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  r81516 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-25 08:34:08 -0500 (Tue, 25 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add three items
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  r81562 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:22:53 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line

  Rewrite wxWidgets section
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  r81563 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:30:09 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line

  Remove top-level 'General Questions' section, pushing up the questions it contains
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  r81567 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 16:29:59 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add item
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  r81593 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-29 03:46:18 -0500 (Sat, 29 May 2010) | 1 line

  #8616: add new turtle demo "nim".
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  r81635 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-01 02:25:23 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Put docs for RegexObject.search() before RegexObject.match() to mirror re.search() and re.match() order.
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  r81680 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-03 17:34:42 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files.
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  r81681 | sean.reifschneider | 2010-06-03 20:51:26 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue8810: Clearing up docstring for tzinfo.utcoffset.
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  r81684 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-04 08:41:02 -0500 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files - other cases covered.
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  r81801 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-07 08:38:40 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  #8875: Remove duplicated paragraph
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  r81888 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-10 20:54:58 -0500 (Thu, 10 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Add a few more items
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  r81931 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:26:54 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Fix punctuation.
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  r81932 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:28:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Document that an existing directory raises in mkdir().
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  r81933 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:45:33 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Update version in README.
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  r81939 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:01 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Use newer toctree syntax.
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  r81940 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:28 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Add document on how to build.
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  r81941 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Fix gratuitous indentation.
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  r81942 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:46:03 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Update README.
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  r81963 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-12 15:00:55 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Grammar fix
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  r81984 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-14 10:58:39 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  #8993: fix reference.
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  r81991 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-14 19:38:58 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Add another bunch of items
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  r82120 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-20 16:45:45 -0500 (Sun, 20 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Note that Python 3.x isn't covered; add forward ref. for UTF-8; note error in 2.5 and up
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  r82188 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-23 19:02:46 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  remove reverted changed
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  r82264 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:47:47 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Confusing punctuation.
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  r82265 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:49:23 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Use designated syntax for optional grammar element.
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  r82266 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:51:44 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Fix URL.
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  r82267 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:55:38 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Two typos.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 73ed56f..9d2cdf5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -709,18 +709,12 @@ Regular Expression Objects
 
    The :class:`RegexObject` class supports the following methods and attributes:
 
+   .. method:: RegexObject.search(string[, pos[, endpos]])
 
-   .. method:: RegexObject.match(string[, pos[, endpos]])
-
-      If zero or more characters at the beginning of *string* match this regular
-      expression, return a corresponding :class:`MatchObject` instance.  Return
-      ``None`` if the string does not match the pattern; note that this is different
-      from a zero-length match.
-
-      .. note::
-
-         If you want to locate a match anywhere in *string*, use
-         :meth:`~RegexObject.search` instead.
+      Scan through *string* looking for a location where this regular expression
+      produces a match, and return a corresponding :class:`MatchObject` instance.
+      Return ``None`` if no position in the string matches the pattern; note that this
+      is different from finding a zero-length match at some point in the string.
 
       The optional second parameter *pos* gives an index in the string where the
       search is to start; it defaults to ``0``.  This is not completely equivalent to
@@ -732,24 +726,34 @@ Regular Expression Objects
       will be as if the string is *endpos* characters long, so only the characters
       from *pos* to ``endpos - 1`` will be searched for a match.  If *endpos* is less
       than *pos*, no match will be found, otherwise, if *rx* is a compiled regular
-      expression object, ``rx.match(string, 0, 50)`` is equivalent to
-      ``rx.match(string[:50], 0)``.
+      expression object, ``rx.search(string, 0, 50)`` is equivalent to
+      ``rx.search(string[:50], 0)``.
 
-         >>> pattern = re.compile("o")
-         >>> pattern.match("dog")      # No match as "o" is not at the start of "dog."
-         >>> pattern.match("dog", 1)   # Match as "o" is the 2nd character of "dog".
-         <_sre.SRE_Match object at ...>
+      >>> pattern = re.compile("d")
+      >>> pattern.search("dog")     # Match at index 0
+      <_sre.SRE_Match object at ...>
+      >>> pattern.search("dog", 1)  # No match; search doesn't include the "d"
 
 
-   .. method:: RegexObject.search(string[, pos[, endpos]])
+   .. method:: RegexObject.match(string[, pos[, endpos]])
 
-      Scan through *string* looking for a location where this regular expression
-      produces a match, and return a corresponding :class:`MatchObject` instance.
-      Return ``None`` if no position in the string matches the pattern; note that this
-      is different from finding a zero-length match at some point in the string.
+      If zero or more characters at the *beginning* of *string* match this regular
+      expression, return a corresponding :class:`MatchObject` instance.  Return
+      ``None`` if the string does not match the pattern; note that this is different
+      from a zero-length match.
 
       The optional *pos* and *endpos* parameters have the same meaning as for the
-      :meth:`~RegexObject.match` method.
+      :meth:`~RegexObject.search` method.
+
+      .. note::
+
+         If you want to locate a match anywhere in *string*, use
+         :meth:`~RegexObject.search` instead.
+
+      >>> pattern = re.compile("o")
+      >>> pattern.match("dog")      # No match as "o" is not at the start of "dog".
+      >>> pattern.match("dog", 1)   # Match as "o" is the 2nd character of "dog".
+      <_sre.SRE_Match object at ...>
 
 
    .. method:: RegexObject.split(string[, maxsplit=0])
@@ -759,12 +763,16 @@ Regular Expression Objects
 
    .. method:: RegexObject.findall(string[, pos[, endpos]])
 
-      Identical to the :func:`findall` function, using the compiled pattern.
+      Similar to the :func:`findall` function, using the compiled pattern, but
+      also accepts optional *pos* and *endpos* parameters that limit the search
+      region like for :meth:`match`.
 
 
    .. method:: RegexObject.finditer(string[, pos[, endpos]])
 
-      Identical to the :func:`finditer` function, using the compiled pattern.
+      Similar to the :func:`finditer` function, using the compiled pattern, but
+      also accepts optional *pos* and *endpos* parameters that limit the search
+      region like for :meth:`match`.
 
 
    .. method:: RegexObject.sub(repl, string[, count=0])