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  r59704 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 04:15:05 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Moved include "Python.h" in front of other imports to silence a warning.
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  r59706 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-04 04:22:53 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 10 lines

  Minor fix-ups to named tuples:

  * Make the _replace() method respect subclassing.

  * Using property() to make _fields read-only wasn't a good idea.
    It caused len(Point._fields) to fail.

  * Add note to _cast() about length checking and alternative with the star-operator.
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  r59707 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-04 09:01:23 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Make math.{floor,ceil}({int,long}) return float again for backwards
  compatibility after r59671 made them return integral types.
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  r59709 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 14:21:07 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
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  r59712 | lars.gustaebel | 2008-01-04 15:00:33 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets
  directory permissions and times.

  (will backport to 2.5)
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  r59714 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 15:47:17 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update links to bug/patch tracker
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  r59716 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:23:30 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added interface to Windows' WSAIoctl and a simple example for a network sniffer.
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  r59717 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:29:00 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  And here is the rest of Hirokazu Yamamoto's patch for VS6.0 support. Thanks Hiro!
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  r59719 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:34:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Reverted last transaction. It's the wrong branch.
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  r59721 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:48:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  socket.ioctl is only available on Windows
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  r59722 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 19:24:41 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix markup
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  r59723 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 19:25:05 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix markup
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  r59725 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 01:59:59 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1725 by Mark Dickinson, fixes incorrect conversion of -1e1000
  and adds errors for -0x.
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  r59726 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 02:21:57 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #1698 by Senthil: allow '@' in username when parsed by urlparse.py.
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  r59727 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-05 02:35:43 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Improve namedtuple's _cast() method with a docstring, new name, and error-checking.
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  r59728 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-05 03:17:24 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add error-checking to namedtuple's _replace() method.
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  r59730 | fred.drake | 2008-01-05 05:38:38 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  clean up a comment
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  r59731 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-05 09:47:13 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 11 lines

  Continue rolling back pep-3141 changes that changed behavior from 2.5. This
  round included:
   * Revert round to its 2.6 behavior (half away from 0).
   * Because round, floor, and ceil always return float again, it's no
     longer necessary to have them delegate to __xxx___, so I've ripped
     that out of their implementations and the Real ABC. This also helps
     in implementing types that work in both 2.6 and 3.0: you return int
     from the __xxx__ methods, and let it get enabled by the version
     upgrade.
   * Make pow(-1, .5) raise a ValueError again.
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  r59736 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-05 16:13:49 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix comment typo
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  r59738 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-05 18:15:44 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add myself.
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  r59739 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 18:49:17 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix C++-style comment.
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  r59742 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 20:28:16 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove with_statement future imports from 2.6 docs.
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  r59743 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 20:29:45 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Simplify index entries; fix #1712.
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  r59744 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 20:44:22 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Doc patch #1730 from Robin Stocker; minor corrections mostly to os.rst.
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  r59749 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 21:29:13 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert socket.rst to unix-eol.
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  r59750 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 21:33:46 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Set native svn:eol-style property for text files.
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  r59752 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 21:46:29 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1719: capitalization error in "UuidCreate".
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  r59753 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 22:02:25 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Repair markup.
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  r59754 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 22:10:50 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Use markup.
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  r59757 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-05 22:35:52 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Final adjustments for #1601
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  r59758 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 23:19:06 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
  Fix by John Nagle.
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  r59759 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 23:20:01 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add John Nagle (of issue #1637).
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  r59765 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-06 10:02:24 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Small code simplification.  Forgot that classmethods can be called from intances.
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  r59766 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-01-06 11:09:48 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Use vcbuild for VS 2009.
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  r59767 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-01-06 12:03:43 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Package using VS 2008.
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  r59768 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-01-06 12:13:16 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Don't try to package msvcr90 for the moment.
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  r59769 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 15:17:36 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  #1696393: don't check for '.' and '..' in ntpath.walk since
  they aren't returned from os.listdir anymore.
  Reported by Michael Haggerty.
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  r59770 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 15:27:15 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  #1742: don't raise exception on os.path.relpath("a", "a"), but return os.curdir.
  Reported by Jesse Towner.
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  r59771 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 15:33:52 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1591: Clarify docstring of Popen3.
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  r59772 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:30:34 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1680: fix context manager example function name.
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  r59773 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:34:57 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1755097: document default values for [].sort() and sorted().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 554cbc5..92183a4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -352,6 +352,23 @@ Notes:
    or "-" for Not a Number (NaN) and positive or negative infinity.
    
 
+All :class:`numbers.Real` types (:class:`int` and
+:class:`float`) also include the following operations:
+
++--------------------+--------------------------------+--------+
+| Operation          | Result                         | Notes  |
++====================+================================+========+
+| ``trunc(x)``       | *x* truncated to Integral      |        |
++--------------------+--------------------------------+--------+
+| ``round(x[, n])``  | *x* rounded to n digits,       |        |
+|                    | rounding half to even. If n is |        |
+|                    | omitted, it defaults to 0.     |        |
++--------------------+--------------------------------+--------+
+| ``math.floor(x)``  | the greatest Integral <= *x*   |        |
++--------------------+--------------------------------+--------+
+| ``math.ceil(x)``   | the least Integral >= *x*      |        |
++--------------------+--------------------------------+--------+
+
 .. XXXJH exceptions: overflow (when? what operations?) zerodivision
 
 
@@ -366,7 +383,7 @@ Integers support additional operations that make sense only for bit-strings.
 Negative numbers are treated as their 2's complement value (this assumes a
 sufficiently large number of bits that no overflow occurs during the operation).
 
-The priorities of the binary bit-wise operations are all lower than the numeric
+The priorities of the binary bitwise operations are all lower than the numeric
 operations and higher than the comparisons; the unary operation ``~`` has the
 same priority as the other unary numeric operations (``+`` and ``-``).
 
@@ -1319,10 +1336,11 @@ Notes:
    *cmp* specifies a custom comparison function of two arguments (list items) which
    should return a negative, zero or positive number depending on whether the first
    argument is considered smaller than, equal to, or larger than the second
-   argument: ``cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x.lower(), y.lower())``
+   argument: ``cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x.lower(), y.lower())``.  The default value
+   is ``None``.
 
    *key* specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison
-   key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``
+   key from each list element: ``key=str.lower``.  The default value is ``None``.
 
    *reverse* is a boolean value.  If set to ``True``, then the list elements are
    sorted as if each comparison were reversed.
@@ -2005,7 +2023,12 @@ Files have the following methods:
    argument is optional and defaults to  ``os.SEEK_SET`` or ``0`` (absolute file
    positioning); other values are ``os.SEEK_CUR`` or ``1`` (seek relative to the
    current position) and ``os.SEEK_END`` or ``2``  (seek relative to the file's
-   end).  There is no return value.  Note that if the file is opened for appending
+   end).  There is no return value.
+   
+   For example, ``f.seek(2, os.SEEK_CUR)`` advances the position by two and
+   ``f.seek(-3, os.SEEK_END)`` sets the position to the third to last.
+
+   Note that if the file is opened for appending
    (mode ``'a'`` or ``'a+'``), any :meth:`seek` operations will be undone at the
    next write.  If the file is only opened for writing in append mode (mode
    ``'a'``), this method is essentially a no-op, but it remains useful for files
@@ -2138,7 +2161,7 @@ to be provided for a context manager object to define a runtime context:
    the context expression in a :keyword:`with` statement.
 
    An example of a context manager that returns a related object is the one
-   returned by ``decimal.Context.get_manager()``. These managers set the active
+   returned by :func:`decimal.localcontext`. These managers set the active
    decimal context to a copy of the original decimal context and then return the
    copy. This allows changes to be made to the current decimal context in the body
    of the :keyword:`with` statement without affecting code outside the