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  r74609 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-08-31 18:43:45 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 3 lines

  Doc fix for issue2637.
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  r74627 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-02 22:31:26 +0200 (Mi, 02 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6819: fix typo.
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    r74633 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-03 14:31:39 +0200 (Do, 03 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #6757: complete the list of types that marshal can serialize.
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  r74645 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 10:07:32 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #5221: fix related topics: SEQUENCEMETHODS[12] doesnt exist any more.
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    r74650 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 13:19:34 +0200 (Fr, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    #5101: add back tests to test_funcattrs that were lost during unittest conversion, and make some PEP8 cleanups.
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    r74737 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-09 18:49:13 +0200 (Mi, 09 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    Properly document copy and deepcopy as functions.
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    r74838 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 18:22:12 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    Remove some more boilerplate from the actual tests in test_pdb.
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    r74839 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-16 18:36:39 +0200 (Mi, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

    Make the pdb displayhook compatible with the standard displayhook: do not print Nones. Add a test for that.
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  r75016 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-22 15:53:14 +0200 (Di, 22 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6969: make it explicit that configparser writes/reads text files, and fix the example.
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    r75313 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:07:35 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Bring old demo up-to-date.
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    r75315 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:10:05 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Remove unneeded "L" suffixes.
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    r75321 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:43:21 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Remove outdated comment and fix a few style issues.
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    r75322 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:47:31 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Show use of range() step argument nicely.
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    r75325 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-10 23:55:11 +0200 (Sa, 10 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Modernize factorisation demo (mostly augassign.)
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    r75327 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 00:03:43 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Style fixes.
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    r75329 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 00:26:45 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Modernize all around (dont ask me how useful that script is nowadays...)
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    r75337 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 10:18:44 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Update morse script, avoid globals, use iterators.
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    r75339 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 10:39:16 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Update markov demo.
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  r75341 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 10:43:08 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix README description.
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    r75342 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 10:45:03 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Remove useless script "mkrcs" and update README.
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    r75350 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 14:00:18 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Use getopt in script.py demo.
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    r75351 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 14:03:01 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Fix variable.
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    r75354 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 16:23:49 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Update lpwatch script.
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    r75356 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 16:49:37 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Remove ftpstats script, the daemon whose log files it reads is long gone.
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    r75358 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 17:06:44 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Overhaul of Demo/xml.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
index a54bc19..a5d3a77 100644
--- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -231,9 +231,11 @@ RawConfigParser Objects
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.readfp(fp, filename=None)
 
    Read and parse configuration data from the file or file-like object in *fp*
-   (only the :meth:`readline` method is used).  If *filename* is omitted and *fp*
-   has a :attr:`name` attribute, that is used for *filename*; the default is
-   ``<???>``.
+   (only the :meth:`readline` method is used).  The file-like object must
+   operate in text mode, i.e. return strings from :meth:`readline`.
+
+   If *filename* is omitted and *fp* has a :attr:`name` attribute, that is used
+   for *filename*; the default is ``<???>``.
 
 
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.get(section, option)
@@ -279,8 +281,9 @@ RawConfigParser Objects
 
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.write(fileobject)
 
-   Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object.  This
-   representation can be parsed by a future :meth:`read` call.
+   Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object,
+   which must be opened in text mode (accepting strings).  This representation
+   can be parsed by a future :meth:`read` call.
 
 
 .. method:: RawConfigParser.remove_option(section, option)
@@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ An example of writing to a configuration file::
    config.set('Section1', 'foo', '%(bar)s is %(baz)s!')
 
    # Writing our configuration file to 'example.cfg'
-   with open('example.cfg', 'wb') as configfile:
+   with open('example.cfg', 'w') as configfile:
        config.write(configfile)
 
 An example of reading the configuration file again::
diff --git a/Doc/library/copy.rst b/Doc/library/copy.rst
index e6ad857..5ae79aa9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/copy.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/copy.rst
@@ -4,21 +4,25 @@
 .. module:: copy
    :synopsis: Shallow and deep copy operations.
 
+This module provides generic (shallow and deep) copying operations.
 
-.. index::
-   single: copy() (in copy)
-   single: deepcopy() (in copy)
 
-This module provides generic (shallow and deep) copying operations.
+Interface summary:
+
+.. function:: copy(x)
+
+   Return a shallow copy of *x*.
+
+
+.. function:: deepcopy(x)
+
+   Return a deep copy of *x*.
 
-Interface summary::
 
-   import copy
+.. exception:: error
 
-   x = copy.copy(y)        # make a shallow copy of y
-   x = copy.deepcopy(y)    # make a deep copy of y
+   Raised for module specific errors.
 
-For module specific errors, :exc:`copy.error` is raised.
 
 The difference between shallow and deep copying is only relevant for compound
 objects (objects that contain other objects, like lists or class instances):
diff --git a/Doc/library/marshal.rst b/Doc/library/marshal.rst
index 7e1daf3..3b9e3d2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/marshal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/marshal.rst
@@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ supports a substantially wider range of objects than marshal.
 
 Not all Python object types are supported; in general, only objects whose value
 is independent from a particular invocation of Python can be written and read by
-this module.  The following types are supported: ``None``, integers,
-floating point numbers, strings, bytes, bytearrays, tuples, lists, sets,
-dictionaries, and code objects, where it should be understood that tuples, lists
-and dictionaries are only supported as long as the values contained therein are
-themselves supported; and recursive lists and dictionaries should not be written
-(they will cause infinite loops).
+this module.  The following types are supported: booleans, integers, floating
+point numbers, complex numbers, strings, bytes, bytearrays, tuples, lists, sets,
+frozensets, dictionaries, and code objects, where it should be understood that
+tuples, lists, sets, frozensets and dictionaries are only supported as long as
+the values contained therein are themselves supported; and recursive lists, sets
+and dictionaries should not be written (they will cause infinite loops).  The
+singletons :const:`None`, :const:`Ellipsis` and :exc:`StopIteration` can also be
+marshalled and unmarshalled.
 
 There are functions that read/write files as well as functions operating on
 strings.
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index fc23417..f251852 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -227,7 +227,8 @@ The :mod:`urllib.parse` module defines the following functions:
 .. function:: quote(string, safe='/', encoding=None, errors=None)
 
    Replace special characters in *string* using the ``%xx`` escape. Letters,
-   digits, and the characters ``'_.-'`` are never quoted. The optional *safe*
+   digits, and the characters ``'_.-'`` are never quoted. By default, this
+   function is intended for quoting the path section of URL. The optional *safe*
    parameter specifies additional ASCII characters that should not be quoted
    --- its default value is ``'/'``.
 
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index ef2f382..e3abeb7 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ Modules
    of the shared library file.
 
 Custom classes
-   Custon class types are typically created by class definitions (see section
+   Custom class types are typically created by class definitions (see section
    :ref:`class`).  A class has a namespace implemented by a dictionary object.
    Class attribute references are translated to lookups in this dictionary, e.g.,
    ``C.x`` is translated to ``C.__dict__["x"]`` (although there are a number of