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  r74008 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-15 02:46:42 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  update year
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  r74021 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 09:33:04 +0200 (Do, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6486: start with built in functions rather than "built in objects".
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  r74022 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 09:38:35 +0200 (Do, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6481: fix typo in os.system() replacement.
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  r74074 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-18 11:03:10 +0200 (Sa, 18 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6513: fix example code: warning categories are classes, not instances.
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  r74075 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-18 11:06:31 +0200 (Sa, 18 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6505: fix typos.
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  r74077 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-18 11:43:40 +0200 (Sa, 18 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6489: fix an ambiguity in getiterator() documentation.
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  r74148 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-21 22:18:27 +0200 (Di, 21 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6536 fixed typo
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  r74179 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-22 23:08:49 +0200 (Mi, 22 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6423 has_key -> in
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  r74188 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-23 16:25:31 +0200 (Do, 23 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  use bools
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  r74192 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-24 18:28:38 +0200 (Fr, 24 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fix arg types of et#.
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  r74193 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-24 18:46:38 +0200 (Fr, 24 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Dont put "void" in signature for nullary functions.
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  r74194 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-24 22:09:46 +0200 (Fr, 24 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6564: fix section about the two raise syntaxes.
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  r74200 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-25 15:02:15 +0200 (Sa, 25 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6571: add index entries for more operators.
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  r74205 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-26 15:36:39 +0200 (So, 26 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6576: fix cross-refs in re docs.
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@ -221,9 +221,11 @@ exception to occur. For example::
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: HiThere
The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised.
This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that
derives from :class:`Exception`).
The argument to :keyword:`raise` is an exception class or instance to be
raised. There is a deprecated alternate syntax that separates class and
constructor arguments; the above could be written as ``raise NameError,
'HiThere'``. Since it once was the only one available, the latter form is
prevalent in older code.
If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to
handle it, a simpler form of the :keyword:`raise` statement allows you to