Fix some markup glitches.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
index 5fd53d1..3bb12b6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ break.
 The change which will probably break the most code is tightening up the
 arguments accepted by some methods.  Some methods would take multiple arguments
 and treat them as a tuple, particularly various list methods such as
-:meth:`.append` and :meth:`.insert`. In earlier versions of Python, if ``L`` is
+:meth:`append` and :meth:`insert`. In earlier versions of Python, if ``L`` is
 a list, ``L.append( 1,2 )`` appends the tuple ``(1,2)`` to the list.  In Python
 2.0 this causes a :exc:`TypeError` exception to be raised, with the message:
 'append requires exactly 1 argument; 2 given'.  The fix is to simply add an
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
index ca87dbb..c7f7d58 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
@@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ Full documentation for ElementTree is available at
 http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm.
 
 ElementTree represents an XML document as a tree of element nodes. The text
-content of the document is stored as the :attr:`.text` and :attr:`.tail`
+content of the document is stored as the :attr:`text` and :attr:`tail`
 attributes of  (This is one of the major differences between ElementTree and
 the Document Object Model; in the DOM there are many different types of node,
 including :class:`TextNode`.)