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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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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index e9be1fd..a822006 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -143,6 +143,19 @@ Assignment of an object to a single target is recursively defined as follows.
   count for the object previously bound to the name to reach zero, causing the
   object to be deallocated and its destructor (if it has one) to be called.
 
+  .. index:: single: destructor
+
+  The name is rebound if it was already bound.  This may cause the reference count
+  for the object previously bound to the name to reach zero, causing the object to
+  be deallocated and its destructor (if it has one) to be called.
+
+* If the target is a target list enclosed in parentheses or in square brackets:
+  The object must be a sequence with the same number of items as there are targets
+  in the target list, and its items are assigned, from left to right, to the
+  corresponding targets.
+
+  .. index:: pair: attribute; assignment
+
 * If the target is an attribute reference: The primary expression in the
   reference is evaluated.  It should yield an object with assignable attributes;
   if this is not the case, :exc:`TypeError` is raised.  That object is then
@@ -296,16 +309,16 @@ The extended form, ``assert expression1, expression2``, is equivalent to ::
    single: __debug__
    exception: AssertionError
 
-These equivalences assume that ``__debug__`` and :exc:`AssertionError` refer to
+These equivalences assume that :const:`__debug__` and :exc:`AssertionError` refer to
 the built-in variables with those names.  In the current implementation, the
-built-in variable ``__debug__`` is ``True`` under normal circumstances,
+built-in variable :const:`__debug__` is ``True`` under normal circumstances,
 ``False`` when optimization is requested (command line option -O).  The current
 code generator emits no code for an assert statement when optimization is
 requested at compile time.  Note that it is unnecessary to include the source
 code for the expression that failed in the error message; it will be displayed
 as part of the stack trace.
 
-Assignments to ``__debug__`` are illegal.  The value for the built-in variable
+Assignments to :const:`__debug__` are illegal.  The value for the built-in variable
 is determined when the interpreter starts.
 
 
@@ -512,6 +525,7 @@ cycle of the nearest enclosing loop.
 
 
 .. _import:
+.. _from:
 
 The :keyword:`import` statement
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