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  r78959 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-14 11:56:14 +0100 (So, 14 Mär 2010) | 33 lines

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    r78760 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 16:23:59 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    #5341: more built-in vs builtin fixes.
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    r78771 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 21:58:31 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    #8085: The function is called PyObject_NewVar, not PyObject_VarNew.
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    r78772 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:12:28 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    #8039: document conditional expressions better, giving them their own section.
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    r78773 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:32:06 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    #8044: document Py_{Enter,Leave}RecursiveCall functions.
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    r78802 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-08 17:28:40 +0100 (Mo, 08 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Fix typo.
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    r78922 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-13 14:41:58 +0100 (Sa, 13 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Update for new download location.
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    r78952 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-14 10:55:08 +0100 (So, 14 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    #8137: add iso-8859-16 to the standard encodings table.
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  r79170 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:02:59 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Fix some issues found by Jacques Ducasse on the docs list.
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    r79172 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:08:00 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Add a paragraph about set displays.
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  r79177 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:25:54 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Need to use list(range()) to get a list.
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    r79178 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:28:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Clarify that for shell=True, the shell PID will be the child PID.
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    r79181 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:51:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Update os.kill() emulation example for Windows to use ctypes.
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    r79184 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:58:36 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Update text for newest US DST regulation.  The sample file already has the calculation right.
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    r79185 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 11:02:47 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Include structmember.h correctly.
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    r79192 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 12:50:58 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

    Remove leftover word.
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  r79581 | georg.brandl | 2010-04-02 10:47:07 +0200 (Fr, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  #8213: document behavior of -u on py3k better.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index f0e551e..5d40d5e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -127,13 +127,12 @@ always available.
 
    .. index:: object: traceback
 
-   If no exception is being handled anywhere on the stack, a tuple containing three
-   ``None`` values is returned.  Otherwise, the values returned are ``(type, value,
-   traceback)``.  Their meaning is: *type* gets the exception type of the exception
-   being handled (a class object); *value* gets the exception parameter (its
-   :dfn:`associated value` or the second argument to :keyword:`raise`, which is
-   always a class instance if the exception type is a class object); *traceback*
-   gets a traceback object (see the Reference Manual) which encapsulates the call
+   If no exception is being handled anywhere on the stack, a tuple containing
+   three ``None`` values is returned.  Otherwise, the values returned are
+   ``(type, value, traceback)``.  Their meaning is: *type* gets the type of the
+   exception being handled (a subclass of :exc:`BaseException`); *value* gets
+   the exception instance (an instance of the exception type); *traceback* gets
+   a traceback object (see the Reference Manual) which encapsulates the call
    stack at the point where the exception originally occurred.
 
    .. warning::
@@ -495,9 +494,7 @@ always available.
    more information.)
 
    The meaning of the variables is the same as that of the return values from
-   :func:`exc_info` above.  (Since there is only one interactive thread,
-   thread-safety is not a concern for these variables, unlike for ``exc_type``
-   etc.)
+   :func:`exc_info` above.
 
 
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