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  r59844 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-07 21:56:05 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Use get() instead of pop() for the optimized version of _replace().
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  r59847 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-07 22:33:51 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Documentation nits.
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  r59849 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-08 03:02:05 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Expand comment.
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  r59850 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-08 03:24:15 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Docs on named tuple's naming conventions and limits of subclassing
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  r59851 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-08 04:40:04 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  It's verbose, not debug
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  r59852 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-08 13:25:20 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected
  by the current context.  Thanks Mark Dickinson.
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  r59853 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-08 15:30:55 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Patch 1137: allow assigning to .buffer_size attribute of PyExpat.parser objects
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  r59854 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-08 15:56:02 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Patch 1114: fix compilation of curses module on 64-bit AIX, and any other LP64 platforms where attr_t isn't a C long
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  r59856 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-08 16:15:09 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Use relative instead of absolute filenames in the C-level tracebacks.
  This prevents traceback prints pointing to files in this way:

    File "\loewis\25\python\Modules\_ctypes\callbacks.c", line 206, in 'calling callback function'
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  r59857 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-08 16:46:10 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Added __enter__ and __exit__ functions to HKEY object
  Added ExpandEnvironmentStrings to the _winreg module.
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  r59858 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-08 17:18:26 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix markup errors from r59857 and clarify key.__enter__/__exit__ docs
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  r59860 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-08 20:42:30 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Better method for associating .py files with the interpreter.
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  r59862 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-08 22:10:12 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 9 lines


  Issue 846388. Adds a call to PyErr_CheckSignals to
  SRE_MATCH so that signal handlers can be invoked during
  long regular expression matches.  It also adds a new
  error return value indicating that an exception
  occurred in a signal handler during the match, allowing
  exceptions in the signal handler to propagate up to the
  main loop.  Thanks Josh Hoyt and Ralf Schmitt.
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diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index 2b52544..1753b6d 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -188,16 +188,17 @@ of your Python installation directory).  This suppresses the terminal window on
 startup.
 
 You can also make all ``.py`` scripts execute with :program:`pythonw.exe`,
-setting this through the usual facilites, for example (names might differ,
-depending on your version of Windows):
+setting this through the usual facilites, for example (might require
+administrative rights):
 
-#. Open the context menu of a :file:`{*}.py` file.
-#. Click :menuselection:`Open with...`.
-#. Choose the interpreter of your choice (utilize :guilabel:`Other...` or
-   :guilabel:`Choose Program...` if it is not in the list of default programs).
-#. Check :guilabel:`Always open files with this program`.
-#. Click :guilabel:`OK`.
+#. Launch a command prompt.
+#. Associate the correct file group with ``.py`` scripts::
+   
+      assoc .py=Python.File
 
+#. Redirect all Python files to the new executable::
+   
+      ftype Python.File=C:\Path\to\pythonw.exe "%1" %*
 
 
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