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  r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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  #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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  #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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  #8172: how does one use a property?
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  #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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  #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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  #8861: remove unused variable.
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  #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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  #9037: add example how to raise custom exceptions from C code.
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  #9111: document that do_help() looks at docstrings.
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  r83571 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:44:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Clarify that abs() is not a namespace.
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  #6867: epoll.register() returns None.
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  #9238: zipfile does handle archive comments.
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@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Let's begin with some definitions.
A *namespace* is a mapping from names to objects. Most namespaces are currently
implemented as Python dictionaries, but that's normally not noticeable in any
way (except for performance), and it may change in the future. Examples of
namespaces are: the set of built-in names (functions such as :func:`abs`, and
namespaces are: the set of built-in names (containing functions such as :func:`abs`, and
built-in exception names); the global names in a module; and the local names in
a function invocation. In a sense the set of attributes of an object also form
a namespace. The important thing to know about namespaces is that there is