could affect existing code; instead, the documentation of the deprecation
is being backported to provide maximum advance notice):

Patch 543387.  Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod().

Clarified that the footnote applies to versions 1.5 and after instead of
just version 1.5.  Closes SF bug 577793.

Try to improve the explanation of the "raise" statement and how its arguments
are interpreted.
This closes SF bug #532467.


Fix Typo.


Reword explanation of global statement since an undeclared global is a
free variable and is subject to those rules.


Note the sole case in which the ban on "from ... import *" within a
function is enforced.


Remove the following restriction:
    Names bound by import statements may not occur in global
    statements in the same scope.
Why not?



Note that it is illegal to delete a cell variable.
Note that deleteing an unbound local will raise a NameError.

when used as part of the import statement.

Note that both "as" and "None" becoming keywords in the future.

Closes SF bug #553262.

Addressed SF bug 421973 (finally).

Rewrote the subsection on coercion rules (and made it a proper
subsection, with a label).  The new section is much less precise,
because precise rules would be too hard to give (== I don't know what
they are any more :-).  OTOH, the new section gives much more
up-to-date information.

Also noted that __coerce__ may return NotImplemented, with the same
meaning as None.

FLD: My modifications to Guido's markup are included from revision 1.90.

Closes SF bug 548874 and patch 552468.

(reported by François Pinard).
Added some missing "_" characters in the same cluster of productions.
Added missing floor division operator in m_expr production, and mention
floor division in the relevant portion of the text.

dropped in the HTML formatted version.
Reported by Mike Coleman.

Closes SF bug #518985.

grammer productions.
Fixes SF bug #520959.

level of predictability.  This is not really "good" markup, but is arguably
better than we had before.
This closes SF bug #523117.

appropriately marked.

This partially fixes SF bug #492619.

Fix a typo & use the new notice environment instead of (ab)using the \note
and \warning macros.

they were represented by newlines in the document source.
Partially fixes SF bug #493243.

[ #429329 ] actual-parameters *arg, **kws not doc'd

line was not indented at all, so the example is no longer indented at all.
All of the errors being shown remain.

Typo: characteru --> character

with Python 2.2.

Should this be labeled as changed?  How?)

attribute of file objects, the print statement, and other file operations.
This closes SF bug #484857.

Fix minor markup nits.

reserved words.  No longer need to import string.

didn't use reswords.py, as the comment clearly states. :-(

of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420.

parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group.  These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.