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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex b/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex
index b7c7d63..573d99c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex
@@ -145,7 +145,10 @@ message to \code{sys.stderr}).
\begin{funcdesc}{warn}{message\optional{, category\optional{, stacklevel}}}
Issue a warning, or maybe ignore it or raise an exception. The
\var{category} argument, if given, must be a warning category class
-(see above); it defaults to \exception{UserWarning}. This function
+(see above); it defaults to \exception{UserWarning}. Alternatively
+\var{message} can be a \exception{Warning} instance, in which case
+\var{category} will be ignore and \code{message.__class__} will be used.
+In this case the message text will be \code{str(message)}. This function
raises an exception if the particular warning issued is changed
into an error by the warnings filter see above. The \var{stacklevel}
argument can be used by wrapper functions written in Python, like
@@ -169,6 +172,9 @@ filename and line number, and optionally the module name and the
registry (which should be the \code{__warningregistry__} dictionary of
the module). The module name defaults to the filename with \code{.py}
stripped; if no registry is passed, the warning is never suppressed.
+\var{message} must be a string and \var{category} a subclass of
+\exception{Warning} or \var{message} may be a \exception{Warning} instance,
+in which case \var{category} will be ignored.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{showwarning}{message, category, filename,