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  r63724 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-26 22:22:14 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 6 lines

  Fixes issue2791: subprocess.Popen.communicate leaked a file descripton until
  the last reference to the Popen instance was dropped.  Adding explicit
  close() calls fixes it.

  Candidate for backport to release25-maint.
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  r63726 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 22:43:24 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix minor grammar typo
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  r63732 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 23:44:26 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines

  remove duplication in test module
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  r63744 | lars.gustaebel | 2008-05-27 14:39:23 +0200 (Tue, 27 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
  when the TarFile is closed.
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  r63754 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-28 03:12:35 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  update tutorial function with more appropiate one from Eric Smith
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  r63755 | mark.hammond | 2008-05-28 03:54:55 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  bdist_wininst now works correctly when both --skip-build and --plat-name are specified.
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  r63757 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-28 13:21:39 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2989: add PyType_Modified().
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  r63758 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-28 13:51:41 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix spelling
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  r63760 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-28 17:41:36 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2990: prevent inconsistent state while updating method cache.
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  r63775 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:18:17 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Two fixes in bytearray docs.
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  r63781 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:38:37 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2988: add note about catching CookieError when parsing untrusted cookie data.
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  r63782 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:45:26 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2985: allow i8 in XMLRPC responses.
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  r63787 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 16:35:39 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert #2990 patch; it's not necessary as Armin showed.
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  r63805 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 08:37:27 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2784: fix leaks in exception exit.
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  r63806 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 08:49:47 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2855: Fix obscure crasher by slowing down the entire module.  Mimics what was done to dictionaries in r59223.
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  r63807 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 09:16:53 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2903:  Add __name__ in globals for namedtuple namespace.
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  r63808 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 09:54:16 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2999: fix name of third parameter in unicode.replace()'s docstring.
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  r63818 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 21:12:13 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  getloadavg() is not available on Windows.
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  r63819 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 21:17:29 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Better quote with single quotes.
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  r63823 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-30 22:44:39 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix grammar
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  r63824 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2008-05-30 22:52:18 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Update the locale module alias table.

  Closes #3011.
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2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
index 280c028..c21e531 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -475,8 +475,8 @@ called with an arbitrary number of arguments.  These arguments will be wrapped
 up in a tuple.  Before the variable number of arguments, zero or more normal
 arguments may occur. ::
 
-   def fprintf(file, template, *args):
-       file.write(template.format(args))
+   def write_multiple_items(file, separator, *args):
+       file.write(separator.join(args))
 
  
 Normally, these ``variadic`` arguments will be last in the list of formal
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
index 42fc6e1..27a91d0 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ and executes a *script* from that file.
 A second way of starting the interpreter is ``python -c command [arg] ...``,
 which executes the statement(s) in *command*, analogous to the shell's
 :option:`-c` option.  Since Python statements often contain spaces or other
-characters that are special to the shell, it is best to quote  *command* in its
-entirety with double quotes.
+characters that are special to the shell, it is usually advised to quote
+*command* in its entirety with single quotes.
 
 Some Python modules are also useful as scripts.  These can be invoked using
 ``python -m module [arg] ...``, which executes the source file for *module* as