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  r74074 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-18 05:03:10 -0400 (Sat, 18 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6513: fix example code: warning categories are classes, not instances.
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  r74077 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-18 05:43:40 -0400 (Sat, 18 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6489: fix an ambiguity in getiterator() documentation.
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  r74111 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-20 09:30:10 -0400 (Mon, 20 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  remove docs for deprecated -p option
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  r74188 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-23 10:25:31 -0400 (Thu, 23 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  use bools
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  r74192 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-24 12:28:38 -0400 (Fri, 24 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fix arg types of et#.
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  r74193 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-24 12:46:38 -0400 (Fri, 24 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Dont put "void" in signature for nullary functions.
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  r74200 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-25 09:02:15 -0400 (Sat, 25 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6571: add index entries for more operators.
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  r74252 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 12:06:31 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6593: fix link targets.
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  r74253 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 12:09:17 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6591: add reference to ioctl in fcntl module for platforms other than Windows.
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  r74258 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 12:57:05 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Add a link to readline, and mention IPython and bpython.
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  r74259 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 13:07:21 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fix some markup and small factual glitches found by M. Markert.
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  r74260 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 13:15:20 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a few markup glitches.
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  r74261 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-29 13:50:25 -0400 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Rewrite the section about classes a bit; mostly tidbits, and a larger update to the section about "private" variables to reflect the Pythonic consensus better.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
index 938430f..4d7f1c5 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
@@ -347,12 +347,15 @@ Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic
 
 The :mod:`decimal` module offers a :class:`Decimal` datatype for decimal
 floating point arithmetic.  Compared to the built-in :class:`float`
-implementation of binary floating point, the new class is especially helpful for
-financial applications and other uses which require exact decimal
-representation, control over precision, control over rounding to meet legal or
-regulatory requirements, tracking of significant decimal places, or for
-applications where the user expects the results to match calculations done by
-hand.
+implementation of binary floating point, the class is especially helpful for
+
+* financial applications and other uses which require exact decimal
+  representation,
+* control over precision,
+* control over rounding to meet legal or regulatory requirements,
+* tracking of significant decimal places, or
+* applications where the user expects the results to match calculations done by
+  hand.
 
 For example, calculating a 5% tax on a 70 cent phone charge gives different
 results in decimal floating point and binary floating point. The difference