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  r63542 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-22 20:35:30 -0500 (Thu, 22 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue #2819: Add math.sum, a function that sums a sequence of floats
  efficiently but with no intermediate loss of precision.  Based on
  Raymond Hettinger's ASPN recipe.  Thanks Jean Brouwers for the patch.
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  r63543 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-22 21:36:48 -0500 (Thu, 22 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add tests for math.sum (Issue #2819)
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  r63544 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-22 22:30:01 -0500 (Thu, 22 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Better error reporting in test_math.py
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  r63546 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-22 23:32:43 -0500 (Thu, 22 May 2008) | 1 line

  Tweak the comments and formatting.
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  r63553 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-23 07:07:36 -0500 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Skip math.sum tests on non IEEE 754 platforms, and on IEEE 754 platforms
  that exhibit the problem described in issue #2937.
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  r63563 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-23 10:18:28 -0500 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
  otherwise be produced.
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  r63564 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-23 12:21:44 -0500 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2909: show how to name unpacked fields.
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  r63567 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-23 12:34:34 -0500 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r63569 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-23 14:33:13 -0500 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Mention that the leaking of variables from list comprehensions
  is fixed in 3.0.
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  r63576 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-24 04:36:45 -0500 (Sat, 24 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Don't try to get the window size if it was never set before.
  Fixes the test failure on Solaris.
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2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index a5cffdd..5035ac9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Notes on using :class:`Set` and :class:`MutableSet` as a mixin:
    Since some set operations create new sets, the default mixin methods need
    a way to create new instances from an iterable. The class constructor is
    assumed to have a signature in the form ``ClassName(iterable)``.
-   That assumption is factored-out to a single internal classmethod called
+   That assumption is factored-out to an internal classmethod called
    :meth:`_from_iterable` which calls ``cls(iterable)`` to produce a new set.
    If the :class:`Set` mixin is being used in a class with a different
    constructor signature, you will need to override :meth:`from_iterable`
diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
index a1832a1..282483d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/struct.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -216,6 +216,16 @@ end, assuming longs are aligned on 4-byte boundaries.  This only works when
 native size and alignment are in effect; standard size and alignment does not
 enforce any alignment.
 
+Unpacked fields can be named by assigning them to variables or by wrapping
+the result in a named tuple::
+
+    >>> record = 'raymond   \x32\x12\x08\x01\x08'
+    >>> name, serialnum, school, gradelevel = unpack('<10sHHb', record)
+
+    >>> from collections import namedtuple
+    >>> Student = namedtuple('Student', 'name serialnum school gradelevel')
+    >>> Student._make(unpack('<10sHHb', s))
+    Student(name='raymond   ', serialnum=4658, school=264, gradelevel=8)
 
 .. seealso::