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  r77952 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-03 10:50:14 -0600 (Wed, 03 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Fix test_inspect.py data to match recent change to inspect_fodder.py (r77942).
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  r78030 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-02-06 14:14:10 -0600 (Sat, 06 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  check type_getattro for correctness in a descriptor corner case
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  r78102 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-07 19:35:35 -0600 (Sun, 07 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Move distutils into its own subsection; add various items
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  r78104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-08 07:22:24 -0600 (Mon, 08 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Add two items; move a subsection
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  r78107 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-02-08 14:25:47 -0600 (Mon, 08 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Clarify and correct description for ccbench and iobench.
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  r78206 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-16 11:55:26 -0600 (Tue, 16 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Make the references to Popen in the description of Call
  and check_call into links.
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  r78216 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-18 08:16:48 -0600 (Thu, 18 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r78296 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-21 20:08:45 -0600 (Sun, 21 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Re-word
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  r78297 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-21 20:29:10 -0600 (Sun, 21 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change description for clarity.  Noted by Shawn Ligocki.
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  r78328 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-22 12:17:16 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  fixes issue #7530, serve_forever()
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  r78331 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 12:38:23 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Fix comment typo
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  r78332 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 12:42:07 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  #7627: MH.remove() would fail if the MH mailbox was locked;
  it would call _unlock_file() and pass it a closed file object.  Noted by Rob Austein.
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  r78336 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-22 13:55:22 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  fixes issue #1522237, bad init check in _threading_local
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  r78339 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-22 15:27:38 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  * fix issue#7476
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  r78343 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 16:48:41 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 10 lines

  #2560: remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from my_fgets() in Parser/myreadline.c.
  Noted by Joseph Armbruster; patch by Jessica McKellar.

  The original code was 'for (;;) {...}', where ... ended
  with a 'return -2' statement and did not contain a 'break' or 'continue'
  statement.  Therefore, the body of the loop is always executed once.

  Once upon a time there was a 'continue' in the loop, but it was removed in
  rev36346, committed by mwh on Wed Jul 7 17:44:12 2004.
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  r78378 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-23 11:23:30 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  fixup markup error
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  r78379 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-23 13:34:06 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

   issue#6442 use in operator instead of has_key
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  r78415 | dirkjan.ochtman | 2010-02-23 22:00:52 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7733: add explicit reference in asyncore docs.
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  r78559 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-03-01 13:45:21 -0600 (Mon, 01 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  #7637: update discussion of minidom.unlink() and garbage collection
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  r78717 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-03-05 21:13:33 -0600 (Fri, 05 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  settscdump is definitely an implementation detail
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  r78791 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-03-08 06:00:39 -0600 (Mon, 08 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index 98e758612d..5ece1ca13f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -82,22 +82,12 @@ document: the one that holds all others.  Here is an example program::
    dom3 = parseString("<myxml>Some data</myxml>")
    assert dom3.documentElement.tagName == "myxml"
 
-When you are finished with a DOM, you should clean it up.  This is necessary
-because some versions of Python do not support garbage collection of objects
-that refer to each other in a cycle.  Until this restriction is removed from all
-versions of Python, it is safest to write your code as if cycles would not be
-cleaned up.
-
-The way to clean up a DOM is to call its :meth:`unlink` method::
-
-   dom1.unlink()
-   dom2.unlink()
-   dom3.unlink()
-
-:meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific extension to the DOM API.
-After calling :meth:`unlink` on a node, the node and its descendants are
-essentially useless.
-
+When you are finished with a DOM tree, you may optionally call the
+:meth:`unlink` method to encourage early cleanup of the now-unneeded
+objects.  :meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific
+extension to the DOM API that renders the node and its descendants are
+essentially useless.  Otherwise, Python's garbage collector will
+eventually take care of the objects in the tree.
 
 .. seealso::