Refer consistently to issues, rewrap to 70 chars.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -12,73 +12,78 @@ What's new in Python 3.0b1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #2963: fix merging oversight that disabled method cache for all types.
+- Issue #2963: fix merging oversight that disabled method cache for
+  all types.
 
 - Issue #2964: fix a missing INCREF in instancemethod_descr_get.
 
-- Issue 2895: Don't crash when given bytes objects as keyword names.
+- Issue #2895: Don't crash when given bytes objects as keyword names.
 
-- Issue 2798: When parsing arguments with PyArg_ParseTuple, the "s" code now
-  allows any unicode string and returns a utf-8 encoded buffer, just like the
-  "s#" code already does.  The "z" code was corrected as well.
+- Issue #2798: When parsing arguments with PyArg_ParseTuple, the "s"
+  code now allows any unicode string and returns a utf-8 encoded
+  buffer, just like the "s#" code already does.  The "z" code was
+  corrected as well.
 
-- Issue 2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
-
-- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that equals
-  ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
-  ``func.func_code.co_name``.  The repr() of a generator now also contains
-  this name.
+- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
+  equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
+  ``func.func_code.co_name``.  The repr() of a generator now also
+  contains this name.
 
 - Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
 
-- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
-  was sometimes incorrectly raised.
+- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
+  ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
 
-- The --with-toolbox-glue option (and the associated pymactoolbox.h) have been
-  removed.
+- The ``--with-toolbox-glue`` option (and the associated
+  pymactoolbox.h) have been removed.
 
-- Issue #2196: hasattr now lets exceptions which do not inherit Exception
-  (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of ignoring them
+- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
+  Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
+  ignoring them.
 
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
 - Renamed ``_winreg`` module to ``winreg``.
 
-- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the platform.
+- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
+  platform.
 
 - Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
 
-- Fixed #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
+- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- The repr module has been renamed to reprlib.
+- The ``repr`` module has been renamed to ``reprlib``.
 
-- The statvfs module has been removed.
+- The ``statvfs`` module has been removed.
 
-- #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
+- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
 
-- #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's
-  ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored.
+- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
+  rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
+  ignored.
 
-- #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap TextWrapper class.
+- Patch #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap's
+  ``TextWrapper`` class.
 
 - Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
   large to fit in a C long.  ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
   suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
   OverflowError.
 
-- The ConfigParser module has been renamed to configparser.
+- The ``ConfigParser`` module has been renamed to ``configparser``.
 
-- Issue 2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
+- Issue #2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
 
-- The multifile module has been removed.
+- The ``multifile`` module has been removed.
 
-- The SocketServer module has been renamed to socketserver.
+- The ``SocketServer`` module has been renamed to ``socketserver``.
 
-- Fix the __all__ setting on 'collections' to include UserList and UserString.
+- Fixed the ``__all__`` setting on ``collections`` to include
+  ``UserList`` and ``UserString``.
 
 - The sre module has been removed.
 
@@ -106,11 +111,11 @@ Library
 
 - The imputil module has been removed.
 
-- os.path.walk has been removed in favor of os.walk
+- os.path.walk has been removed in favor of os.walk.
 
 - pdb gained the "until" command.
 
-- test.test_support has been renamed test.support
+- The test.test_support module has been renamed to test.support.
 
 Build
 -----
@@ -124,22 +129,22 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a5?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Fix misbehaviour of PyLong_FromSsize_t on systems where sizeof(size_t) >
-  sizeof(long).
+- Fixed misbehaviour of PyLong_FromSsize_t on systems where
+  sizeof(size_t) > sizeof(long).
 
-- Issue #2221: Corrected a SystemError "error return without exception set",
-  when the code executed by exec() raises an exception, and sys.stdout.flush()
-  also raises an error.
+- Issue #2221: Corrected a SystemError "error return without exception
+  set", when the code executed by exec() raises an exception, and
+  sys.stdout.flush() also raises an error.
 
-- Bug #2565: The repr() of type objects now calls them 'class', 
-  not 'type' - whether they are builtin types or not.
+- Bug #2565: The repr() of type objects now calls them 'class', not
+  'type' - whether they are builtin types or not.
 
 - The command line processing was converted to pass Unicode strings
   through as unmodified as possible; as a consequence, the C API
   related to command line arguments was changed to use wchar_t.
 
-- All backslashes in raw strings are interpreted literally.  This means that
-  '\u' and '\U' escapes are not treated specially.
+- All backslashes in raw strings are interpreted literally.  This
+  means that '\u' and '\U' escapes are not treated specially.
 
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
@@ -147,13 +152,13 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
-- ctypes objects now support the PEP3118 buffer interface
+- ctypes objects now support the PEP3118 buffer interface.
 
 - Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions now longer contain a cyclic
   reference to themselves.
 
-- Issue #2058: Remove the buf attribute and add __slots__ to the TarInfo
-  class in order to reduce tarfile's memory usage.
+- Issue #2058: Remove the buf attribute and add __slots__ to the
+  TarInfo class in order to reduce tarfile's memory usage.
 
 - Bug #2606: Avoid calling .sort() on a dict_keys object.
 
@@ -167,13 +172,13 @@ Build
 - Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
 
 - "make install" is now an alias for "make altinstall", to prevent
-  accidentally overwriting a Python 2.x installation.
-  Use "make fullinstall" to force Python 3.0 to be installed as
-  "python".
+  accidentally overwriting a Python 2.x installation.  Use "make
+  fullinstall" to force Python 3.0 to be installed as "python".
 
 - Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
   gcc is used as compiler.
 
+
 What's New in Python 3.0a4?
 ===========================
 
@@ -195,9 +200,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
-- The class distutils.commands.build_py.build_py_2to3 can be used
-  as a build_py replacement to automatically run 2to3 on modules
-  that are going to be installed.
+- The class distutils.commands.build_py.build_py_2to3 can be used as a
+  build_py replacement to automatically run 2to3 on modules that are
+  going to be installed.
 
 - A new pickle protocol (protocol 3) is added with explicit support
   for bytes.  This is the default protocol.  It intentionally cannot
@@ -212,17 +217,20 @@ Library
   more common than binary data anyway.
 
 - Default to ASCII as the locale.getpreferredencoding, if the POSIX
-  system doesn't support CODESET and LANG isn't set or doesn't
-  allow deduction of an encoding.
+  system doesn't support CODESET and LANG isn't set or doesn't allow
+  deduction of an encoding.
+
+- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 now return an unsigned
+  value.
 
-- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 now return an unsigned value.
+- Issue #719888: Updated tokenize to use a bytes API.  generate_tokens
+  has been renamed tokenize and now works with bytes rather than
+  strings.  A new detect_encoding function has been added for
+  determining source file encoding according to PEP-0263.  Token
+  sequences returned by tokenize always start with an ENCODING token
+  which specifies the encoding used to decode the file.  This token is
+  used to encode the output of untokenize back to bytes.
 
-- Issue #719888: Updated tokenize to use a bytes API. generate_tokens has been
-  renamed tokenize and now works with bytes rather than strings. A new
-  detect_encoding function has been added for determining source file encoding
-  according to PEP-0263. Token sequences returned by tokenize always start
-  with an ENCODING token which specifies the encoding used to decode the file.
-  This token is used to encode the output of untokenize back to bytes.
 
 What's New in Python 3.0a3?
 ===========================
@@ -232,84 +240,90 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #2282: io.TextIOWrapper was not overriding seekable() from io.IOBase.
+- Issue #2282: io.TextIOWrapper was not overriding seekable() from
+  io.IOBase.
 
 - Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes.  Also
-  prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot 
-  on a registered virtual subclass.
+  prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
+  a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
 
-- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or
-  imaginary part.
+- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
+  real or imaginary part.
 
-- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order
-  to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the
-  OS earlier.
+- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
+  in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
+  memory to the OS earlier.
 
-- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
-  collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
+- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
+  subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
+  to a bound method.
 
 - Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
   list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
 
-- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries
-  each.
+- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
+  entries each.
 
-- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions
-  ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
+- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
+  functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
   to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
 
 - Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
-  Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
+  Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns
+  pi_t.
 
-- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
-  in the same code unit.
+- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
+  appear in the same code unit.
 
-- Issue #2025 :  Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
-  the collections.Sequence API.
+- Issue #2025: Added tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
+  with the collections.Sequence API.
 
-- Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small int
-  list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third finalization.
+- Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small
+  int list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third
+  finalization.
 
-- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raises SystemError
+- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raised SystemError.
 
-- Issue #1771: remove cmp parameter from sorted() and list.sort()
+- Issue #1771: remove cmp parameter from sorted() and list.sort().
 
-- Issue #1969: split and rsplit in bytearray are inconsistent
+- Issue #1969: split and rsplit in bytearray are inconsistent.
 
-- map() and no longer accepts None for the first argument.
-  Use zip() instead.
+- map() no longer accepts None for the first argument.  Use zip()
+  instead.
 
 - Issue #1769: Now int("- 1") is not allowed any more.
 
-- Object/longobject.c: long(float('nan')) raises an OverflowError instead
-  of returning 0.
+- Object/longobject.c: long(float('nan')) raises an OverflowError
+  instead of returning 0.
 
-- Issue #1762972: __file__ points to the source file instead of the pyc/pyo
-  file if the py file exists.
+- Issue #1762972: __file__ points to the source file instead of the
+  pyc/pyo file if the py file exists.
 
 - Issue #1393: object_richcompare() returns NotImplemented instead of
   False if the objects aren't equal, to give the other side a chance.
 
 - Issue #1692: Interpreter was not displaying location of SyntaxError.
 
-- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
-  module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
-  of 'error code 193'.  Also use Unicode strings to deal with non-English
-  locales.
+- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
+  extension module.  Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
+  application' instead of 'error code 193'.  Also use Unicode strings
+  to deal with non-English locales.
 
-- Issue #1587: Added instancemethod wrapper for PyCFunctions. The Python C API
-  has gained a new type *PyInstanceMethod_Type* and the functions
-  *PyInstanceMethod_Check(o)*, *PyInstanceMethod_New(func)* and
-  *PyInstanceMethod_Function(im)*.
+- Issue #1587: Added instancemethod wrapper for PyCFunctions. The
+  Python C API has gained a new type *PyInstanceMethod_Type* and the
+  functions *PyInstanceMethod_Check(o)*, *PyInstanceMethod_New(func)*
+  and *PyInstanceMethod_Function(im)*.
 
-- Constants gc.DEBUG_OBJECT and gc.DEBUG_INSTANCE have been removed from the
-  gc module; gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE or gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE are now enough to
-  print the corresponding list of objects considered by the garbage collector.
+- Constants gc.DEBUG_OBJECT and gc.DEBUG_INSTANCE have been removed
+  from the gc module; gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE or gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE
+  are now enough to print the corresponding list of objects considered
+  by the garbage collector.
 
-- Issue #1573: Improper use of the keyword-only syntax makes the parser crash.
+- Issue #1573: Improper use of the keyword-only syntax makes the
+  parser crash.
 
-- Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode instead
-  of PyString.
+- Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode
+  instead of PyString.
 
 - Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
   original source encoding.
@@ -319,34 +333,34 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a
   mountpoint.
 
-- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
-  first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3
-  bytes.
-
+- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
+  the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
+  longer than 3 bytes.
 
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
-- Code for itertools ifilter(), imap(), and izip() moved to bultins and
-  renamed to filter(), map(), and zip().  Also, renamed izip_longest()
-  to zip_longest() and ifilterfalse() to filterfalse().
-
-- Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload()
+- Code for itertools ifilter(), imap(), and izip() moved to bultins
+  and renamed to filter(), map(), and zip().  Also, renamed
+  izip_longest() to zip_longest() and ifilterfalse() to filterfalse().
 
-- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ
+- Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload().
 
-- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows.
+- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
+  PROT_READ.
 
+- Issue #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result
+  on Windows.
 
 Library
 -------
 
 - Weakref dictionaries now inherit from MutableMapping.
-  XXX their API still needs to be modernized (i.e. eliminate the iter methods).
 
-- Created new UserDict class in collections module.  This one inherits from and
-  complies with the MutableMapping ABC.  Also, moved UserString and UserList
-  to the collections module.  The MutableUserString class was removed.
+- Created new UserDict class in collections module.  This one inherits
+  from and complies with the MutableMapping ABC.  Also, moved
+  UserString and UserList to the collections module.  The
+  MutableUserString class was removed.
 
 - Removed UserDict.DictMixin.  Replaced all its uses with
   collections.MutableMapping.
@@ -360,9 +374,8 @@ Library
 Build
 -----
 
-- Renamed --enable-unicode configure flag to --with-wide-unicode, since
-  Unicode strings can't be disabled anymore.
-
+- Renamed --enable-unicode configure flag to --with-wide-unicode,
+  since Unicode strings can't be disabled anymore.
 
 C API
 -----
@@ -370,8 +383,9 @@ C API
 - Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
   Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
 
-- New API PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(), works like PyImport_ImportModule()
-  but won't block on the import lock (returning an error instead).
+- New API PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(), works like
+  PyImport_ImportModule() but won't block on the import lock
+  (returning an error instead).
 
 
 What's New in Python 3.0a2?
@@ -386,14 +400,14 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - str8 now has the same construction signature as bytes.
 
-- Comparisons between str and str8 now return False/True for ==/!=.  sqlite3
-  returns str8 when recreating on object from it's __conform__ value.  The
-  struct module returns str8 for all string-related formats.  This was true
-  before this change, but becomes more apparent thanks to string comparisons
-  always being False.
+- Comparisons between str and str8 now return False/True for ==/!=.
+  sqlite3 returns str8 when recreating on object from it's __conform__
+  value.  The struct module returns str8 for all string-related
+  formats.  This was true before this change, but becomes more
+  apparent thanks to string comparisons always being False.
 
-- Replaced `PyFile_FromFile()` with `PyFile_FromFd(fd, name. mode, buffer, 
-  encoding, newline)`
+- Replaced `PyFile_FromFile()` with `PyFile_FromFd(fd, name. mode,
+  buffer, encoding, newline)`.
 
 - Fixed `imp.find_module()` to obey the -*- coding: -*- header.
 
@@ -401,55 +415,55 @@ Core and Builtins
   with `Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` and a new API method 
   `PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(char*)` was added.
 
-- io.open() and _fileio.FileIO have grown a new argument closefd. A false
-  value disables the closing of the file descriptor.
+- io.open() and _fileio.FileIO have grown a new argument closefd. A
+  false value disables the closing of the file descriptor.
 
-- Added a new option -b to issues warnings (-bb for errors) about certain
-  operations between bytes/buffer and str like str(b'') and comparsion.
+- Added a new option -b to issues warnings (-bb for errors) about
+  certain operations between bytes/buffer and str like str(b'') and
+  comparison.
 
-- The standards streams sys.stdin, stdout and stderr may be None when the
-  when the C runtime library returns an invalid file descriptor for the
-  streams (fileno(stdin) < 0). For now this happens only for Windows GUI
-  apps and scripts started with `pythonw.exe`.
+- The standards streams sys.stdin, stdout and stderr may be None when
+  the when the C runtime library returns an invalid file descriptor
+  for the streams (fileno(stdin) < 0). For now this happens only for
+  Windows GUI apps and scripts started with `pythonw.exe`.
 
 - Added PCbuild9 directory for VS 2008.
 
-- Renamed structmember.h WRITE_RESTRICTED to PY_WRITE_RESTRICTED to work
-  around a name clash with VS 2008 on Windows.
+- Renamed structmember.h WRITE_RESTRICTED to PY_WRITE_RESTRICTED to
+  work around a name clash with VS 2008 on Windows.
 
-- Unbound methods are gone for good. ClassObject.method returns an ordinary
-  function object, instance.method still returns a bound method object.
-  The API of bound methods is cleaned up, too. The im_class attribute is
-  removed and im_func + im_self are renamed to __func__ and __self__. The
-  factory PyMethod_New takes only func and instance as argument.
+- Unbound methods are gone for good. ClassObject.method returns an
+  ordinary function object, instance.method still returns a bound
+  method object.  The API of bound methods is cleaned up, too. The
+  im_class attribute is removed and im_func + im_self are renamed to
+  __func__ and __self__. The factory PyMethod_New takes only func and
+  instance as argument.
 
-- intobject.h is no longer included by Python.h. The remains were moved
-  to longobject.h. It still exists to define several aliases from PyInt_
-  to PyLong_ functions.
+- intobject.h is no longer included by Python.h. The remains were
+  moved to longobject.h. It still exists to define several aliases
+  from PyInt_ to PyLong_ functions.
 
 - Removed sys.maxint, use sys.maxsize instead.
 
-
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
 - The `hotshot` profiler has been removed; use `cProfile` instead.
 
-
 Library
 -------
 
-- When loading an external file using testfile(), the passed-in encoding
-  argument was being ignored if __loader__ is defined and forcing the source to
-  be UTF-8.
+- When loading an external file using testfile(), the passed-in
+  encoding argument was being ignored if __loader__ is defined and
+  forcing the source to be UTF-8.
 
-- The methods `os.tmpnam()`, `os.tempnam()` and `os.tmpfile()` have been
-  removed in favor of the tempfile module.
+- The methods `os.tmpnam()`, `os.tempnam()` and `os.tmpfile()` have
+  been removed in favor of the tempfile module.
 
 - Removed the 'new' module.
 
-- Removed all types from the 'types' module that are easily accessable through
-  builtins.
+- Removed all types from the 'types' module that are easily accessable
+  through builtins.
 
 
 What's New in Python 3.0a1?
@@ -469,9 +483,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Removed the __oct__ and __hex__ special methods and added a bin()
   builtin function.
 
-- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
-  are invalid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
-  This also affects int(x, 0).
+- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
+  literals are invalid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
+  "0b".  This also affects int(x, 0).
 
 - None, True, False are now keywords.
 
@@ -481,54 +495,57 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Remove tuple parameter unpacking (PEP 3113).
 
-- Remove the f_restricted attribute from frames.  This naturally leads to the
-  removal of PyEval_GetRestricted() and PyFrame_IsRestricted().
+- Remove the f_restricted attribute from frames.  This naturally leads
+  to the removal of PyEval_GetRestricted() and PyFrame_IsRestricted().
 
-- PEP 3132 was accepted. That means that you can do ``a, *b = range(5)``
-  to assign 0 to a and [1, 2, 3, 4] to b.
+- PEP 3132 was accepted. That means that you can do ``a, *b =
+  range(5)`` to assign 0 to a and [1, 2, 3, 4] to b.
 
-- range() now returns an iterator rather than a list.  Floats are not allowed.
-  xrange() is no longer defined.
+- range() now returns an iterator rather than a list.  Floats are not
+  allowed.  xrange() is no longer defined.
 
 - Patch #1660500: hide iteration variable in list comps, add set comps
-  and use common code to handle compilation of iterative expressions
+  and use common code to handle compilation of iterative expressions.
 
 - By default, != returns the opposite of ==, unless the latter returns
   NotImplemented.
 
-- Patch #1680961: sys.exitfunc has been removed and replaced with a private
-  C-level API.
+- Patch #1680961: sys.exitfunc has been removed and replaced with a
+  private C-level API.
 
 - PEP 3115: new metaclasses: the metaclass is now specified as a
-  keyword arg in the class statement, which can now use the full syntax of
-  a parameter list. Also, the metaclass can implement a __prepare__ function
-  which will be called to create the dictionary for the new class namespace.
+  keyword arg in the class statement, which can now use the full
+  syntax of a parameter list. Also, the metaclass can implement a
+  __prepare__ function which will be called to create the dictionary
+  for the new class namespace.
 
 - The long-deprecated argument "pend" of PyFloat_FromString() has been
   removed.
 
 - The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
-  its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows
-  customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__().
+  its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
+  allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
+  __getattr__().
 
 - Removed support for __members__ and __methods__.
 
 - Removed indexing/slicing on BaseException.
 
 - input() became raw_input(): the name input() now implements the
-  functionality formerly known as raw_input(); the name raw_input()
-  is no longer defined.
+  functionality formerly known as raw_input(); the name raw_input() is
+  no longer defined.
 
-- Classes listed in an 'except' clause must inherit from BaseException.
+- Classes listed in an 'except' clause must inherit from
+  BaseException.
 
 - PEP 3106: dict.iterkeys(), .iteritems(), .itervalues() are now gone;
   and .keys(), .items(), .values() return dict views, which behave
   like sets.
 
 - PEP 3105: print is now a function.  Also (not in the PEP) the
-  'softspace' attribute of files is now gone (since print() doesn't use
-  it).  A side effect of this change is that you can get incomplete
-  output lines in interactive sessions:
+  'softspace' attribute of files is now gone (since print() doesn't
+  use it).  A side effect of this change is that you can get
+  incomplete output lines in interactive sessions:
 
   >>> print(42, end="")
   42>>>
@@ -537,16 +554,16 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - PEP 3102: keyword-only arguments.
 
-- Int/Long unification is complete.  The 'long' built-in type
-  and literals with trailing 'L' or 'l' have been removed.
-  Performance may be sub-optimal (haven't really benchmarked).
+- Int/Long unification is complete.  The 'long' built-in type and
+  literals with trailing 'L' or 'l' have been removed.  Performance
+  may be sub-optimal (haven't really benchmarked).
 
 - 'except E, V' must now be spelled as 'except E as V' and deletes V
   at the end of the except clause; V must be a simple name.
 
 - Added function annotations per PEP 3107.
 
-- Added nonlocal declaration from PEP 3104
+- Added nonlocal declaration from PEP 3104:
 
   >>> def f(x):
   ...     def inc():
@@ -585,17 +602,14 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Absolute import is the default behavior for 'import foo' etc.
 
-- Removed support for syntax:
-  backticks (ie, `x`), <>
+- Removed support for syntax: backticks (ie, `x`), <>.
 
-- Removed these Python builtins:
-  apply(), callable(), coerce(), execfile(), file(), reduce(), reload()
+- Removed these Python builtins: apply(), callable(), coerce(),
+  execfile(), file(), reduce(), reload().
 
-- Removed these Python methods:
-  {}.has_key
+- Removed these Python methods: {}.has_key.
 
-- Removed these opcodes:
-  BINARY_DIVIDE, INPLACE_DIVIDE, UNARY_CONVERT
+- Removed these opcodes: BINARY_DIVIDE, INPLACE_DIVIDE, UNARY_CONVERT.
 
 - Remove C API support for restricted execution.
 
@@ -604,8 +618,7 @@ Core and Builtins
   sequences of unequal length -- it now stops after the shortest one
   is exhausted.
 
-- Additions:
-  set literals, set comprehensions, ellipsis literal.
+- Additions: set literals, set comprehensions, ellipsis literal.
 
 - Added class decorators per PEP 3129.
 
@@ -613,85 +626,77 @@ Core and Builtins
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
-- Remove the imageop module.  Obsolete long with its unit tests becoming
-  useless from the removal of rgbimg and imgfile.
+- Removed the imageop module.  Obsolete long with its unit tests
+  becoming useless from the removal of rgbimg and imgfile.
+
+- Removed these attributes from the operator module: div, idiv,
+  __div__, __idiv__, isCallable, sequenceIncludes.
 
-- Removed these attributes from Python modules:
-  * operator module: div, idiv, __div__, __idiv__, isCallable, sequenceIncludes
-  * sys module: exc_clear(), exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback
+- Removed these attributes from the sys module: exc_clear(), exc_type,
+  exc_value, exc_traceback.
 
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- Remove the compiler package.  Use of the _ast module and (an eventual)
-  AST -> bytecode mechanism.
+- Removed the compiler package.  Use of the _ast module and (an
+  eventual) AST -> bytecode mechanism.
 
-- Removed these modules:
-  * audiodev, Bastion, bsddb185, exceptions, linuxaudiodev,
-    md5, MimeWriter, mimify, popen2,
-    rexec, sets, sha, stringold, strop, sunaudiodev, timing, xmllib.
+- Removed these modules: audiodev, Bastion, bsddb185, exceptions,
+  linuxaudiodev, md5, MimeWriter, mimify, popen2, rexec, sets, sha,
+  stringold, strop, sunaudiodev, timing, xmllib.
 
-- Moved these modules to Tools/Demos:
-  * toaiff
+- Moved the toaiff module to Tools/Demos.
 
-- Remove obsolete IRIX modules: al/AL, cd/CD, cddb, cdplayer, cl/CL, DEVICE,
-  ERRNO, FILE, fl/FL, flp, fm, GET, gl/GL, GLWS, IN, imgfile, IOCTL, jpeg,
-  panel, panelparser, readcd, sgi, sv/SV, torgb, WAIT.
+- Removed obsolete IRIX modules: al/AL, cd/CD, cddb, cdplayer, cl/CL,
+  DEVICE, ERRNO, FILE, fl/FL, flp, fm, GET, gl/GL, GLWS, IN, imgfile,
+  IOCTL, jpeg, panel, panelparser, readcd, sgi, sv/SV, torgb, WAIT.
 
-- Remove obsolete functions:
-  * commands.getstatus(), os.popen*,
+- Removed obsolete functions: commands.getstatus(), os.popen*().
 
-- Remove functions in the string module that are also string methods;
+- Removed functions in the string module that are also string methods;
   Remove string.{letters, lowercase, uppercase}.
 
-- Remove support for long obsolete platforms: plat-aix3, plat-irix5.
+- Removed support for long obsolete platforms: plat-aix3, plat-irix5.
 
-- Remove xmlrpclib.SlowParser.  It was based on xmllib.
+- Removed xmlrpclib.SlowParser.  It was based on xmllib.
 
 - Patch #1680961: atexit has been reimplemented in C.
 
 - Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
 
-
 Build
 -----
 
 C API
 -----
 
-- Removed these Python slots:
-  __coerce__, __div__, __idiv__, __rdiv__
-
-- Removed these C APIs:
-  PyNumber_Coerce(), PyNumber_CoerceEx(), PyMember_Get, PyMember_Set
+- Removed these Python slots: __coerce__, __div__, __idiv__, __rdiv__.
 
-- Removed these C slots/fields:
-  nb_divide, nb_inplace_divide
+- Removed these C APIs: PyNumber_Coerce(), PyNumber_CoerceEx(),
+  PyMember_Get, PyMember_Set.
 
-- Removed these macros:
-  staticforward, statichere, PyArg_GetInt, PyArg_NoArgs, _PyObject_Del
+- Removed these C slots/fields: nb_divide, nb_inplace_divide.
 
-- Removed these typedefs:
-  intargfunc, intintargfunc, intobjargproc, intintobjargproc,
-  getreadbufferproc, getwritebufferproc, getsegcountproc, getcharbufferproc,
-  memberlist
+- Removed these macros: staticforward, statichere, PyArg_GetInt,
+  PyArg_NoArgs, _PyObject_Del.
 
+- Removed these typedefs: intargfunc, intintargfunc, intobjargproc,
+  intintobjargproc, getreadbufferproc, getwritebufferproc,
+  getsegcountproc, getcharbufferproc, memberlist.
 
 Tests
 -----
 
 - Removed test.testall as test.regrtest replaces it.
 
-
 Documentation
 -------------
 
 Mac
 ---
 
-- The cfmfile was removed.
-
+- The cfmfile module was removed.
 
 Platforms
 ---------
@@ -700,8 +705,8 @@ Platforms
 
 - Support for RiscOS, Irix, Tru64 was removed (alledgedly).
 
-
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
+
 **(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**