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  r82805 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:42:10 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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  r82806 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 12:22:44 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9223: link to Command class reference, and move Command interface docs nearer to class docs.
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  r83523 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:06:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9209 and #7781: fix two crashes in pstats interactive browser.
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  r83524 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:20:23 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9428: fix running scripts from profile/cProfile with their own name and the right namespace.  Same fix as for trace.py in #1690103.
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  r83525 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:36:24 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Get rid of spurious "threading" entries in trace output.
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  r83526 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:40:22 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Fix softspace relic.
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  r83527 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:48:46 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #3821: beginnings of a trace.py unittest.
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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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  r83538 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:10:13 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #6928: fix class docs w.r.t. new metaclasses.
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  r83542 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:56:54 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Move test_SimpleHTTPServer into test_httpservers.
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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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  r83551 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:35:06 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove XXX comment that was displayed.
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  r83552 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:36:36 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes.
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  r83553 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:39:17 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove redundant information.
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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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  r83560 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:16:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9087: update json docstrings -- unicode and long do not exist anymore.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
index d068e72216..13359856d2 100644
--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
     +-------------------+---------------+
     | list, tuple       | array         |
     +-------------------+---------------+
-    | str, unicode      | string        |
+    | str               | string        |
     +-------------------+---------------+
-    | int, long, float  | number        |
+    | int, float        | number        |
     +-------------------+---------------+
     | True              | true          |
     +-------------------+---------------+
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
         """Constructor for JSONEncoder, with sensible defaults.
 
         If skipkeys is false, then it is a TypeError to attempt
-        encoding of keys that are not str, int, long, float or None.  If
+        encoding of keys that are not str, int, float or None.  If
         skipkeys is True, such items are simply skipped.
 
         If ensure_ascii is true, the output is guaranteed to be str
-        objects with all incoming unicode characters escaped.  If
-        ensure_ascii is false, the output will be unicode object.
+        objects with all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped.  If
+        ensure_ascii is false, the output can contain non-ASCII characters.
 
         If check_circular is true, then lists, dicts, and custom encoded
         objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to