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  r87136 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-08 17:53:00 -0500 (Wed, 08 Dec 2010) | 6 lines

  Have script_helper._assert_python strip refcount strings from stderr.

  This makes the output of the function and those that depend on it
  independent of whether or not they are being run under a debug
  build.
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  r87221 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-13 19:55:46 -0500 (Mon, 13 Dec 2010) | 4 lines

  #10699: fix docstring for tzset: it does not take a parameter

  Thanks to Garrett Cooper for the fix.
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  r87256 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-14 21:19:14 -0500 (Tue, 14 Dec 2010) | 2 lines

  #10705: document what the values of debuglevel are and mean.
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  r87337 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-17 11:11:40 -0500 (Fri, 17 Dec 2010) | 2 lines

  #10559: provide instructions for accessing sys.argv when first mentioned.
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  r87338 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-17 11:29:07 -0500 (Fri, 17 Dec 2010) | 2 lines

  #10454: clarify the compileall docs and help messages.
    [compileall.py changes not backported.]
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  r87571 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-29 14:06:48 -0500 (Wed, 29 Dec 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix same typo in docs.
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  r87839 | r.david.murray | 2011-01-07 16:57:25 -0500 (Fri, 07 Jan 2011) | 9 lines

  Fix formatting of values with embedded newlines when rfc2047 encoding

  Before this patch if a value being encoded had an embedded newline,
  the line following the newline would have no leading whitespace,
  and the whitespace it did have was encoded into the word.  Now
  the existing whitespace gets turned into a blank, the way it does
  in other header reformatting, and the _continuation_ws gets added
  at the beginning of the encoded line.
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  r88164 | r.david.murray | 2011-01-24 14:34:58 -0500 (Mon, 24 Jan 2011) | 12 lines

  #10960: fix 'stat' links, link to lstat from stat, general tidy of stat doc.

  Original patch by Michal Nowikowski, with some additions and wording
  fixes by me.

  I changed the wording from 'Performs a stat system call' to 'Performs
  the equivalent of a stat system call', since on Windows there are no
  stat/lstat system calls involved.  I also extended Michal's breakout
  of the attributes into a list to the other paragraphs, and rearranged
  the order of the paragraphs in the 'stat' docs to make it flow
  better and put it in what I think is a more logical/useful order.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
index bca02ed..9d376e6 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ Argument Passing
 ----------------
 
 When known to the interpreter, the script name and additional arguments
-thereafter are passed to the script in the variable ``sys.argv``, which is a
-list of strings.  Its length is at least one; when no script and no arguments
+thereafter are turned into a list of strings and assigned to the ``argv``
+variable in the ``sys`` module.  You can access this list by executing ``import
+sys``.  The length of the list is at least one; when no script and no arguments
 are given, ``sys.argv[0]`` is an empty string.  When the script name is given as
 ``'-'`` (meaning  standard input), ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-'``.  When
 :option:`-c` *command* is used, ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-c'``.  When