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  r67952 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 11:42:40 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4752: actually use custom handler in example.
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  r67957 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 12:49:19 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4754: improve winsound documentation.
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  r67958 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:02:59 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4682: 'b' is actually unsigned char.
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  r67960 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:04:44 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4695: fix backslashery.
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  r67961 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:06:04 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Use :samp: role.
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  r67963 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:11:15 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4671: document that pydoc imports modules.
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  r67973 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 20:58:22 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Document Py_VaBuildValue.
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  r67978 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-28 05:58:49 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4731: clarify message about missing module prerequisites.
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  r67995 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 15:16:07 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4763 PyErr_ExceptionMatches won't blow up with NULL arguments
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  r68030 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 15:38:14 -0600 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix French
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  r68057 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-30 01:01:25 -0600 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Minor documentation change relating to NullHandler.
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  r68061 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-30 04:15:49 -0600 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4778: attributes can't be called.
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6 files changed, 30 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
index 0c4be63..1b2ab8f 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
@@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ variable(s) whose address should be passed.
    them. Instead, the implementation assumes that the string object uses the
    encoding passed in as parameter.
 
-``b`` (integer) [char]
-   Convert a Python integer to a tiny int, stored in a C :ctype:`char`.
+``b`` (integer) [unsigned char]
+   Convert a nonnegative Python integer to an unsigned tiny int, stored in a C
+   :ctype:`unsigned char`.
 
 ``B`` (integer) [unsigned char]
    Convert a Python integer to a tiny int without overflow checking, stored in a C
@@ -552,3 +553,8 @@ and the following format units are left untouched.
 
    If there is an error in the format string, the :exc:`SystemError` exception is
    set and *NULL* returned.
+
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* Py_VaBuildValue(const char *format, va_list vargs)
+
+   Identical to :cfunc:`Py_BuildValue`, except that it accepts a va_list
+   rather than a variable number of arguments.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
index 7440dda..3fb6e56 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -67,11 +67,10 @@ in various ways.  There is a separate error indicator for each thread.
 
 .. cfunction:: int PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(PyObject *given, PyObject *exc)
 
-   Return true if the *given* exception matches the exception in *exc*.  If *exc*
-   is a class object, this also returns true when *given* is an instance of a
-   subclass.  If *exc* is a tuple, all exceptions in the tuple (and recursively in
-   subtuples) are searched for a match.  If *given* is *NULL*, a memory access
-   violation will occur.
+   Return true if the *given* exception matches the exception in *exc*.  If
+   *exc* is a class object, this also returns true when *given* is an instance
+   of a subclass.  If *exc* is a tuple, all exceptions in the tuple (and
+   recursively in subtuples) are searched for a match.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: void PyErr_NormalizeException(PyObject**exc, PyObject**val, PyObject**tb)
diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index a01d723..8200723 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ For a while people just wrote programs that didn't display accents.  I remember
 looking at Apple ][ BASIC programs, published in French-language publications in
 the mid-1980s, that had lines like these::
 
-	PRINT "FICHER EST COMPLETE."
+	PRINT "FICHIER EST COMPLETE."
 	PRINT "CARACTERE NON ACCEPTE."
 
 Those messages should contain accents, and they just look wrong to someone who
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index dbaa64e..c2581c6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the
 
    .. attribute:: daemon
 
-      The process's daemon flag, a Boolean value.  This must be called before
+      The process's daemon flag, a Boolean value.  This must be set before
       :meth:`start` is called.
 
       The initial value is inherited from the creating process.
@@ -1808,9 +1808,9 @@ Address Formats
   filesystem.
 
 * An ``'AF_PIPE'`` address is a string of the form
-   ``r'\\\\.\\pipe\\PipeName'``.  To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named
+   :samp:`r'\\\\.\\pipe\\{PipeName}'`.  To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named
    pipe on a remote computer called ServerName* one should use an address of the
-   form ``r'\\\\ServerName\\pipe\\PipeName'`` instead.
+   form :samp:`r'\\\\{ServerName}\\pipe\\{PipeName}'`` instead.
 
 Note that any string beginning with two backslashes is assumed by default to be
 an ``'AF_PIPE'`` address rather than an ``'AF_UNIX'`` address.
diff --git a/Doc/library/pydoc.rst b/Doc/library/pydoc.rst
index 41ea1c6..1701662 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pydoc.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pydoc.rst
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ it contains the path separator for your operating system, such as a slash in
 Unix), and refers to an existing Python source file, then documentation is
 produced for that file.
 
+.. note::
+
+   In order to find objects and their documentation, :mod:`pydoc` imports the
+   module(s) to be documented.  Therefore, any code on module level will be
+   executed on that occasion.  Use an ``if __name__ == '__main__':`` guard to
+   only execute code when a file is invoked as a script and not just imported.
+
 Specifying a :option:`-w` flag before the argument will cause HTML documentation
 to be written out to a file in the current directory, instead of displaying text
 on the console.
diff --git a/Doc/library/winsound.rst b/Doc/library/winsound.rst
index dfe3c84..f42ff18 100644
--- a/Doc/library/winsound.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/winsound.rst
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ provided by Windows platforms.  It includes functions and several constants.
    Call the underlying :cfunc:`PlaySound` function from the Platform API.  The
    *sound* parameter may be a filename, audio data as a string, or ``None``.  Its
    interpretation depends on the value of *flags*, which can be a bitwise ORed
-   combination of the constants described below.  If the system indicates an error,
-   :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised.
+   combination of the constants described below. If the *sound* parameter is
+   ``None``, any currently playing waveform sound is stopped. If the system
+   indicates an error, :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised.
 
 
 .. function:: MessageBeep([type=MB_OK])
@@ -102,6 +103,10 @@ provided by Windows platforms.  It includes functions and several constants.
 
    Stop playing all instances of the specified sound.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      This flag is not supported on modern Windows platforms.
+
 
 .. data:: SND_ASYNC