Merged revisions 83593 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 83593 via svnmerge from
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  r83593 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 23:44:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 57 lines

  Merged revisions 83536,83546-83548,83550,83554-83555,83558,83563,83565,83571,83574-83575 via svnmerge from
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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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    r83546 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:16:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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    r83547 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:19:26 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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    r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8172: how does one use a property?
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    r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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    r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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    r83555 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:44:48 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8861: remove unused variable.
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    r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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    r83563 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:21:21 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #9037: add example how to raise custom exceptions from C code.
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    r83565 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:27:20 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #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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    r83574 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:47:56 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #6867: epoll.register() returns None.
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    r83575 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:52:10 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #9238: zipfile does handle archive comments.
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