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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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command/bdist_msi.py

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class bdist_msi (Command):
             if not self.skip_build and self.distribution.has_ext_modules()\
                and self.target_version != short_version:
                 raise DistutilsOptionError, \
-                      "target version can only be %s, or the '--skip_build'" \
+                      "target version can only be %s, or the '--skip-build'" \
                       " option must be specified" % (short_version,)
         else:
             self.versions = list(self.all_versions)

command/bdist_wininst.py

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class bdist_wininst (Command):
             short_version = get_python_version()
             if self.target_version and self.target_version != short_version:
                 raise DistutilsOptionError, \
-                      "target version can only be %s, or the '--skip_build'" \
+                      "target version can only be %s, or the '--skip-build'" \
                       " option must be specified" % (short_version,)
             self.target_version = short_version