diff --git a/Doc/c-api/import.rst b/Doc/c-api/import.rst
index c4816f5ed99..510544edb3d 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/import.rst
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ Importing Modules
    leaves the module in ``sys.modules``.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.4
-      failing imports remove incomplete module objects.
+      Failing imports remove incomplete module objects.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.6
-      always use absolute imports
+      Always uses absolute imports.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(const char *name)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Importing Modules
    unless a non-empty *fromlist* was given.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.4
-      failing imports remove incomplete module objects.
+      Failing imports remove incomplete module objects.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.6
       The function is an alias for :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModuleLevel` with
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Importing Modules
    are installed in the current environment, e.g. by :mod:`rexec` or :mod:`ihooks`.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.6
-      always use absolute imports
+      Always uses absolute imports.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyImport_ReloadModule(PyObject *m)
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/int.rst b/Doc/c-api/int.rst
index ef82100324c..9ff0347d05c 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/int.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/int.rst
@@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ Plain Integer Objects
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyInt_FromSsize_t(Py_ssize_t ival)
 
+   Create a new integer object with a value of *ival*. If the value is larger
+   than ``LONG_MAX`` or smaller than ``LONG_MIN``, a long integer object is
+   returned.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.5
+
+
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyInt_FromSize_t(size_t ival)
+
    Create a new integer object with a value of *ival*. If the value exceeds
    ``LONG_MAX``, a long integer object is returned.
 
diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
index d052ec24c65..5c99c3db27a 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
@@ -1219,16 +1219,23 @@ like this::
    static int
    import_spam(void)
    {
-       PyObject *module = PyImport_ImportModule("spam");
+       PyObject *c_api_object;
+       PyObject *module;
 
-       if (module != NULL) {
-           PyObject *c_api_object = PyObject_GetAttrString(module, "_C_API");
-           if (c_api_object == NULL)
-               return -1;
-           if (PyCObject_Check(c_api_object))
-               PySpam_API = (void **)PyCObject_AsVoidPtr(c_api_object);
-           Py_DECREF(c_api_object);
+       module = PyImport_ImportModule("spam");
+       if (module == NULL)
+           return -1;
+
+       c_api_object = PyObject_GetAttrString(module, "_C_API");
+       if (c_api_object == NULL) {
+           Py_DECREF(module);
+           return -1;
        }
+       if (PyCObject_Check(c_api_object))
+           PySpam_API = (void **)PyCObject_AsVoidPtr(c_api_object);
+
+       Py_DECREF(c_api_object);
+       Py_DECREF(module);
        return 0;
    }
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/array.rst b/Doc/library/array.rst
index 3b247b7700b..f7fb4e372c6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/array.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/array.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ defined:
 +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
 | ``'B'``   | unsigned char  | int               | 1                     |
 +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
-| ``'u'``   | Py_UNICODE     | Unicode character | 2                     |
+| ``'u'``   | Py_UNICODE     | Unicode character | 2 (see note)          |
 +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
 | ``'h'``   | signed short   | int               | 2                     |
 +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ defined:
 | ``'d'``   | double         | float             | 8                     |
 +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
 
+.. note::
+
+   The ``'u'`` typecode corresponds to Python's unicode character.  On narrow
+   Unicode builds this is 2-bytes, on wide builds this is 4-bytes.
+
 The actual representation of values is determined by the machine architecture
 (strictly speaking, by the C implementation).  The actual size can be accessed
 through the :attr:`itemsize` attribute.  The values stored  for ``'L'`` and
@@ -53,9 +58,9 @@ unsigned (long) integers.
 The module defines the following type:
 
 
-.. function:: array(typecode[, initializer])
+.. class:: array(typecode[, initializer])
 
-   Return a new array whose items are restricted by *typecode*, and initialized
+   A new array whose items are restricted by *typecode*, and initialized
    from the optional *initializer* value, which must be a list, string, or iterable
    over elements of the appropriate type.
 
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@ The module defines the following type:
 
 .. data:: ArrayType
 
-   Obsolete alias for :func:`array`.
+   Obsolete alias for :class:`array`.
 
 Array objects support the ordinary sequence operations of indexing, slicing,
 concatenation, and multiplication.  When using slice assignment, the assigned
@@ -80,7 +85,6 @@ and may be used wherever buffer objects are supported.
 
 The following data items and methods are also supported:
 
-
 .. attribute:: array.typecode
 
    The typecode character used to create the array.
diff --git a/Doc/library/cgi.rst b/Doc/library/cgi.rst
index 3879e0d9f20..1e14e4b14dc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/cgi.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/cgi.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-
-:mod:`cgi` --- Common Gateway Interface support.
-================================================
+:mod:`cgi` --- Common Gateway Interface support
+===============================================
 
 .. module:: cgi
    :synopsis: Helpers for running Python scripts via the Common Gateway Interface.
diff --git a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst
index 935afeeba90..b5e9aa87998 100644
--- a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-
-:mod:`contextlib` --- Utilities for :keyword:`with`\ -statement contexts.
-=========================================================================
+:mod:`contextlib` --- Utilities for :keyword:`with`\ -statement contexts
+========================================================================
 
 .. module:: contextlib
    :synopsis: Utilities for with-statement contexts.
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index eca14d6a600..10e61de1434 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-
-:mod:`ctypes` --- A foreign function library for Python.
-========================================================
+:mod:`ctypes` --- A foreign function library for Python
+=======================================================
 
 .. module:: ctypes
    :synopsis: A foreign function library for Python.
diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.panel.rst b/Doc/library/curses.panel.rst
index 59e5b86f191..a3c8bda63c2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/curses.panel.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/curses.panel.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-
-:mod:`curses.panel` --- A panel stack extension for curses.
-===========================================================
+:mod:`curses.panel` --- A panel stack extension for curses
+==========================================================
 
 .. module:: curses.panel
    :synopsis: A panel stack extension that adds depth to  curses windows.
diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst
index c3f1c51040a..01689a23a86 100644
--- a/Doc/library/curses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst
@@ -796,7 +796,8 @@ the following methods:
 
    Get a character. Note that the integer returned does *not* have to be in ASCII
    range: function keys, keypad keys and so on return numbers higher than 256. In
-   no-delay mode, -1 is returned if there is  no input.
+   no-delay mode, -1 is returned if there is no input, else :func:`getch` waits
+   until a key is pressed.
 
 
 .. method:: window.getkey([y, x])
diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index 6e45e84721e..ca902917d10 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -607,10 +607,9 @@ Decimal objects
 
       .. versionadded:: 2.6
 
-   .. method:: logical_invert(other[, context])
+   .. method:: logical_invert([context])
 
-      :meth:`logical_invert` is a logical operation.  The argument must
-      be a *logical operand* (see :ref:`logical_operands_label`).  The
+      :meth:`logical_invert` is a logical operation.  The
       result is the digit-wise inversion of the operand.
 
       .. versionadded:: 2.6
diff --git a/Doc/library/fcntl.rst b/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
index fa0b3cba976..b186d14f7a5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ lay-out for the *lockdata* variable is system dependent --- therefore using the
 
    Module :mod:`os`
       If the locking flags :const:`O_SHLOCK` and :const:`O_EXLOCK` are present
-      in the :mod:`os` module, the :func:`os.open` function provides a more
-      platform-independent alternative to the :func:`lockf` and :func:`flock`
-      functions.
+      in the :mod:`os` module (on BSD only), the :func:`os.open` function
+      provides an alternative to the :func:`lockf` and :func:`flock` functions.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst
index 1d3c2f67097..cf4655b9f0b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/imp.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst
@@ -34,16 +34,17 @@ This module provides an interface to the mechanisms used to implement the
 
 .. function:: find_module(name[, path])
 
-   Try to find the module *name* on the search path *path*.  If *path* is a list
-   of directory names, each directory is searched for files with any of the
-   suffixes returned by :func:`get_suffixes` above.  Invalid names in the list
-   are silently ignored (but all list items must be strings).  If *path* is
-   omitted or ``None``, the list of directory names given by ``sys.path`` is
-   searched, but first it searches a few special places: it tries to find a
-   built-in module with the given name (:const:`C_BUILTIN`), then a frozen
-   module (:const:`PY_FROZEN`), and on some systems some other places are looked
-   in as well (on Windows, it looks in the registry which may point to a
-   specific file).
+   Try to find the module *name*.  If *path* is omitted or ``None``, the list of
+   directory names given by ``sys.path`` is searched, but first a few special
+   places are searched: the function tries to find a built-in module with the
+   given name (:const:`C_BUILTIN`), then a frozen module (:const:`PY_FROZEN`),
+   and on some systems some other places are looked in as well (on Windows, it
+   looks in the registry which may point to a specific file).
+
+   Otherwise, *path* must be a list of directory names; each directory is
+   searched for files with any of the suffixes returned by :func:`get_suffixes`
+   above.  Invalid names in the list are silently ignored (but all list items
+   must be strings).
 
    If search is successful, the return value is a 3-element tuple ``(file,
    pathname, description)``:
diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst
index 0366d779665..af2fd4b6f60 100644
--- a/Doc/library/locale.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst
@@ -148,10 +148,124 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions:
 
 .. function:: nl_langinfo(option)
 
-   Return some locale-specific information as a string. This function is not
-   available on all systems, and the set of possible options might also vary across
-   platforms. The possible argument values are numbers, for which symbolic
-   constants are available in the locale module.
+   Return some locale-specific information as a string.  This function is not
+   available on all systems, and the set of possible options might also vary
+   across platforms.  The possible argument values are numbers, for which
+   symbolic constants are available in the locale module.
+
+   The :func:`nl_langinfo` function accepts one of the following keys.  Most
+   descriptions are taken from the corresponding description in the GNU C
+   library.
+
+   .. data:: CODESET
+
+      Get a string with the name of the character encoding used in the
+      selected locale.
+
+   .. data:: D_T_FMT
+
+      Get a string that can be used as a format string for :func:`strftime` to
+      represent time and date in a locale-specific way.
+
+   .. data:: D_FMT
+
+      Get a string that can be used as a format string for :func:`strftime` to
+      represent a date in a locale-specific way.
+
+   .. data:: T_FMT
+
+      Get a string that can be used as a format string for :func:`strftime` to
+      represent a time in a locale-specific way.
+
+   .. data:: T_FMT_AMPM
+
+      Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent time in the am/pm
+      format.
+
+   .. data:: DAY_1 ... DAY_7
+
+      Get the name of the n-th day of the week.
+
+      .. note::
+
+         This follows the US convention of :const:`DAY_1` being Sunday, not the
+         international convention (ISO 8601) that Monday is the first day of the
+         week.
+
+   .. data:: ABDAY_1 ... ABDAY_7
+
+      Get the abbreviated name of the n-th day of the week.
+
+   .. data:: MON_1 ... MON_12
+
+      Get the name of the n-th month.
+
+   .. data:: ABMON_1 ... ABMON_12
+
+      Get the abbreviated name of the n-th month.
+
+   .. data:: RADIXCHAR
+
+      Get the radix character (decimal dot, decimal comma, etc.)
+
+   .. data:: THOUSEP
+
+      Get the separator character for thousands (groups of three digits).
+
+   .. data:: YESEXPR
+
+      Get a regular expression that can be used with the regex function to
+      recognize a positive response to a yes/no question.
+
+      .. note::
+
+         The expression is in the syntax suitable for the :cfunc:`regex` function
+         from the C library, which might differ from the syntax used in :mod:`re`.
+
+   .. data:: NOEXPR
+
+      Get a regular expression that can be used with the regex(3) function to
+      recognize a negative response to a yes/no question.
+
+   .. data:: CRNCYSTR
+
+      Get the currency symbol, preceded by "-" if the symbol should appear before
+      the value, "+" if the symbol should appear after the value, or "." if the
+      symbol should replace the radix character.
+
+   .. data:: ERA
+
+      Get a string that represents the era used in the current locale.
+
+      Most locales do not define this value.  An example of a locale which does
+      define this value is the Japanese one.  In Japan, the traditional
+      representation of dates includes the name of the era corresponding to the
+      then-emperor's reign.
+
+      Normally it should not be necessary to use this value directly. Specifying
+      the ``E`` modifier in their format strings causes the :func:`strftime`
+      function to use this information.  The format of the returned string is not
+      specified, and therefore you should not assume knowledge of it on different
+      systems.
+
+   .. data:: ERA_YEAR
+
+      Get the year in the relevant era of the locale.
+
+   .. data:: ERA_D_T_FMT
+
+      Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent dates and times in a
+      locale-specific era-based way.
+
+   .. data:: ERA_D_FMT
+
+      Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent time in a
+      locale-specific era-based way.
+
+   .. data:: ALT_DIGITS
+
+      Get a representation of up to 100 values used to represent the values
+      0 to 99.
 
 
 .. function:: getdefaultlocale([envvars])
@@ -360,140 +474,13 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions:
    This is a symbolic constant used for different values returned by
    :func:`localeconv`.
 
-The :func:`nl_langinfo` function accepts one of the following keys. Most
-descriptions are taken from the corresponding description in the GNU C library.
-
-
-.. data:: CODESET
-
-   Return a string with the name of the character encoding used in the selected
-   locale.
-
-
-.. data:: D_T_FMT
-
-   Return a string that can be used as a format string for strftime(3) to represent
-   time and date in a locale-specific way.
-
-
-.. data:: D_FMT
-
-   Return a string that can be used as a format string for strftime(3) to represent
-   a date in a locale-specific way.
-
-
-.. data:: T_FMT
-
-   Return a string that can be used as a format string for strftime(3) to represent
-   a time in a locale-specific way.
-
-
-.. data:: T_FMT_AMPM
-
-   The return value can be used as a format string for 'strftime' to represent time
-   in the am/pm format.
-
-
-.. data:: DAY_1 ... DAY_7
-
-   Return name of the n-th day of the week.
-
-   .. note::
-
-      This follows the US convention of :const:`DAY_1` being Sunday, not the
-      international convention (ISO 8601) that Monday is the first day of the week.
-
-
-.. data:: ABDAY_1 ... ABDAY_7
-
-   Return abbreviated name of the n-th day of the week.
-
-
-.. data:: MON_1 ... MON_12
-
-   Return name of the n-th month.
-
-
-.. data:: ABMON_1 ... ABMON_12
-
-   Return abbreviated name of the n-th month.
-
-
-.. data:: RADIXCHAR
-
-   Return radix character (decimal dot, decimal comma, etc.)
-
-
-.. data:: THOUSEP
-
-   Return separator character for thousands (groups of three digits).
-
-
-.. data:: YESEXPR
-
-   Return a regular expression that can be used with the regex function to
-   recognize a positive response to a yes/no question.
-
-   .. note::
-
-      The expression is in the syntax suitable for the :cfunc:`regex` function from
-      the C library, which might differ from the syntax used in :mod:`re`.
-
-
-.. data:: NOEXPR
-
-   Return a regular expression that can be used with the regex(3) function to
-   recognize a negative response to a yes/no question.
-
-
-.. data:: CRNCYSTR
-
-   Return the currency symbol, preceded by "-" if the symbol should appear before
-   the value, "+" if the symbol should appear after the value, or "." if the symbol
-   should replace the radix character.
-
-
-.. data:: ERA
-
-   The return value represents the era used in the current locale.
-
-   Most locales do not define this value.  An example of a locale which does define
-   this value is the Japanese one.  In Japan, the traditional representation of
-   dates includes the name of the era corresponding to the then-emperor's reign.
-
-   Normally it should not be necessary to use this value directly. Specifying the
-   ``E`` modifier in their format strings causes the :func:`strftime` function to
-   use this information.  The format of the returned string is not specified, and
-   therefore you should not assume knowledge of it on different systems.
-
-
-.. data:: ERA_YEAR
-
-   The return value gives the year in the relevant era of the locale.
-
-
-.. data:: ERA_D_T_FMT
-
-   This return value can be used as a format string for :func:`strftime` to
-   represent dates and times in a locale-specific era-based way.
-
-
-.. data:: ERA_D_FMT
-
-   This return value can be used as a format string for :func:`strftime` to
-   represent time in a locale-specific era-based way.
-
-
-.. data:: ALT_DIGITS
-
-   The return value is a representation of up to 100 values used to represent the
-   values 0 to 99.
 
 Example::
 
    >>> import locale
    >>> loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale
-   >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') # use German locale; name might vary with platform
+   # use German locale; name might vary with platform
+   >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')
    >>> locale.strcoll('f\xe4n', 'foo') # compare a string containing an umlaut
    >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') # use user's preferred locale
    >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C') # use default (C) locale
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 6a903eec3c0..4cca466406d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the
 
       Note that a daemonic process is not allowed to create child processes.
       Otherwise a daemonic process would leave its children orphaned if it gets
-      terminated when its parent process exits.
+      terminated when its parent process exits. Additionally, these are **not**
+      Unix daemons or services, they are normal processes that will be
+      terminated (and not joined) if non-dameonic processes have exited.
 
    In addition to the  :class:`Threading.Thread` API, :class:`Process` objects
    also support the following attributes and methods:
@@ -1700,7 +1702,7 @@ authentication* using the :mod:`hmac` module.
    generally be omitted since it can usually be inferred from the format of
    *address*. (See :ref:`multiprocessing-address-formats`)
 
-   If *authentication* is ``True`` or *authkey* is a string then digest
+   If *authenticate* is ``True`` or *authkey* is a string then digest
    authentication is used.  The key used for authentication will be either
    *authkey* or ``current_process().authkey)`` if *authkey* is ``None``.
    If authentication fails then :exc:`AuthenticationError` is raised.  See
@@ -1742,7 +1744,7 @@ authentication* using the :mod:`hmac` module.
 
    If *authkey* is ``None`` and *authenticate* is ``True`` then
    ``current_process().authkey`` is used as the authentication key.  If
-   *authkey* is ``None`` and *authentication* is ``False`` then no
+   *authkey* is ``None`` and *authenticate* is ``False`` then no
    authentication is done.  If authentication fails then
    :exc:`AuthenticationError` is raised.  See :ref:`multiprocessing-auth-keys`.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index b8e09aa3589..5ac11c3c4e6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -645,8 +645,8 @@ option involved in the error; be sure to do the same when calling
 :func:`OptionParser.error` from your application code.
 
 If :mod:`optparse`'s default error-handling behaviour does not suit your needs,
-you'll need to subclass OptionParser and override its :meth:`exit` and/or
-:meth:`error` methods.
+you'll need to subclass OptionParser and override its :meth:`~OptionParser.exit`
+and/or :meth:`~OptionParser.error` methods.
 
 
 .. _optparse-putting-it-all-together:
diff --git a/Doc/library/pickletools.rst b/Doc/library/pickletools.rst
index b07e3bdd84f..ea1619040d3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pickletools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pickletools.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-
-:mod:`pickletools` --- Tools for pickle developers.
-===================================================
+:mod:`pickletools` --- Tools for pickle developers
+==================================================
 
 .. module:: pickletools
    :synopsis: Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine
diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index 9900278022b..98b7972d9bd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-
-:mod:`platform` ---  Access to underlying platform's identifying data.
-======================================================================
+:mod:`platform` ---  Access to underlying platform's identifying data
+=====================================================================
 
 .. module:: platform
    :synopsis: Retrieves as much platform identifying data as possible.
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index deebda7afc5..57f96a9b3d4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -588,10 +588,18 @@ Implementations that do not obey this property are deemed broken.  (This
 constraint was added in Python 2.3; in Python 2.2, various iterators are broken
 according to this rule.)
 
+
+.. _generator-types:
+
+Generator Types
+---------------
+
 Python's :term:`generator`\s provide a convenient way to implement the iterator
 protocol.  If a container object's :meth:`__iter__` method is implemented as a
 generator, it will automatically return an iterator object (technically, a
-generator object) supplying the :meth:`__iter__` and :meth:`next` methods.
+generator object) supplying the :meth:`__iter__` and :meth:`next` methods.  More
+information about generators can be found in :ref:`the documentation for the
+yield expression <yieldexpr>`.
 
 
 .. _typesseq:
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 08b4103ac9b..50fe0626fc3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -825,14 +825,15 @@ not be removed until Python 3.0.  The functions defined in this module are:
    Return a copy of *s*, but with lower case letters converted to upper case.
 
 
-.. function:: ljust(s, width)
-              rjust(s, width)
-              center(s, width)
+.. function:: ljust(s, width[, fillchar])
+              rjust(s, width[, fillchar])
+              center(s, width[, fillchar])
 
    These functions respectively left-justify, right-justify and center a string in
    a field of given width.  They return a string that is at least *width*
-   characters wide, created by padding the string *s* with spaces until the given
-   width on the right, left or both sides.  The string is never truncated.
+   characters wide, created by padding the string *s* with the character *fillchar*
+   (default is a space) until the given width on the right, left or both sides.
+   The string is never truncated.
 
 
 .. function:: zfill(s, width)
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index c6bd07bea39..bc37d330e52 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ This module defines one class called :class:`Popen`:
    needed: Usually, the program to execute is defined by the *args* argument. If
    ``shell=True``, the *executable* argument specifies which shell to use. On Unix,
    the default shell is :file:`/bin/sh`.  On Windows, the default shell is
-   specified by the :envvar:`COMSPEC` environment variable.
+   specified by the :envvar:`COMSPEC` environment variable. The only reason you
+   would need to specify ``shell=True`` on Windows is where the command you
+   wish to execute is actually built in to the shell, eg ``dir``, ``copy``.
+   You don't need ``shell=True`` to run a batch file, nor to run a console-based
+   executable.
 
    *stdin*, *stdout* and *stderr* specify the executed programs' standard input,
    standard output and standard error file handles, respectively.  Valid values
diff --git a/Doc/library/symtable.rst b/Doc/library/symtable.rst
index 9ea3f01b407..9aafd4e13cb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/symtable.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/symtable.rst
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ Examining Symbol Tables
 
       Return ``True`` if the symbol is global.
 
+   .. method:: is_declared_global()
+
+      Return ``True`` if the symbol is declared global with a global statement.
+
    .. method:: is_local()
 
       Return ``True`` if the symbol is local to its block.
diff --git a/Doc/library/timeit.rst b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
index c545b971483..4f930b354fe 100644
--- a/Doc/library/timeit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ The module defines the following public class:
 
    The constructor takes a statement to be timed, an additional statement used for
    setup, and a timer function.  Both statements default to ``'pass'``; the timer
-   function is platform-dependent (see the module doc string).  The statements may
-   contain newlines, as long as they don't contain multi-line string literals.
+   function is platform-dependent (see the module doc string).  *stmt* and *setup*
+   may also contain multiple statements separated by ``;`` or newlines, as long as
+   they don't contain multi-line string literals.
 
    To measure the execution time of the first statement, use the :meth:`timeit`
    method.  The :meth:`repeat` method is a convenience to call :meth:`timeit`
diff --git a/Doc/library/warnings.rst b/Doc/library/warnings.rst
index 81e74528305..77fe5eed2ed 100644
--- a/Doc/library/warnings.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/warnings.rst
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ Available Functions
    be a string and *category* a subclass of :exc:`Warning`. :func:`warnpy3k`
    is using :exc:`DeprecationWarning` as default warning class.
 
+   .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
 
 .. function:: showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno[, file[, line]])
 
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index fa73ea2daf8..88b9b068c41 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Miscellaneous options
       warning is triggered repeatedly for the same source line, such as inside a
       loop).
    ``module``
-      Print each warning only only the first time it occurs in each module.
+      Print each warning only the first time it occurs in each module.
    ``once``
       Print each warning only the first time it occurs in the program.
    ``error``
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 14f283d92d7..127b782c1f4 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -16184,7 +16184,7 @@ people seemed not to have picked it up.  There's a Python script that
 fixes old code: demo/scripts/classfix.py.
 
 * There's a new reserved word: "access".  The syntax and semantics are
-still subject of of research and debate (as well as undocumented), but
+still subject of research and debate (as well as undocumented), but
 the parser knows about the keyword so you must not use it as a
 variable, function, or attribute name.
 
@@ -16434,7 +16434,7 @@ you could get away with the following:
 	(a) define a function of one argument and call it with any
 	    number of arguments; if the actual argument count wasn't
 	    one, the function would receive a tuple containing the
-	    arguments arguments (an empty tuple if there were none).
+	    arguments (an empty tuple if there were none).
 
 	(b) define a function of two arguments, and call it with more
 	    than two arguments; if there were more than two arguments,
@@ -16756,7 +16756,7 @@ Changes to the source code that affect C extension writers
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 
 The function strdup() no longer exists (it was used only in one places
-and is somewhat of a a portability problem sice some systems have the
+and is somewhat of a portability problem since some systems have the
 same function in their C library.
 
 The functions NEW() and RENEW() allocate one spare byte to guard
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d265ef135d8..53d172113b9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -3576,7 +3576,7 @@ Library
 - Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
   GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
 
-- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
+- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
   format do match be more clear.
 
 - Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
diff --git a/Misc/Porting b/Misc/Porting
index 60ce9a8241d..1b94f141e9f 100644
--- a/Misc/Porting
+++ b/Misc/Porting
@@ -37,6 +37,6 @@ options.
 Then bang on it until it executes very simple Python statements.
 
 Now bang on it some more.  At some point you'll want to use the os
-module; this is the time to start thinking about what to to with the
+module; this is the time to start thinking about what to do with the
 posix module.  It's okay to simply #ifdef out those functions that
 cause problems; the remaining ones will be quite useful.
diff --git a/Misc/cheatsheet b/Misc/cheatsheet
index df69f244f68..98e3399ff9d 100644
--- a/Misc/cheatsheet
+++ b/Misc/cheatsheet
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ Exception>
 Standard methods & operators redefinition in classes
 
 Standard methods & operators map to special '__methods__' and thus may be
- redefined (mostly in in user-defined classes), e.g.:
+ redefined (mostly in user-defined classes), e.g.:
     class x:
          def __init__(self, v): self.value = v
          def __add__(self, r): return self.value + r
diff --git a/Misc/developers.txt b/Misc/developers.txt
index b4f6c702aad..5b90e4c277c 100644
--- a/Misc/developers.txt
+++ b/Misc/developers.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Permissions History
 - Heiko Weinen was given SVN access on 29 April 2008 by MvL,
   for GSoC contributions.
 
-- Jesus Cea was was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
+- Jesus Cea was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
   for maintenance of bsddb.
 
 - Guilherme Polo was given SVN access on 24 April 2008 by MvL,
diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man
index 1db77eaac5a..fd9ed457604 100644
--- a/Misc/python.man
+++ b/Misc/python.man
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ to print a warning each time it occurs (this may generate many
 messages if a warning is triggered repeatedly for the same source
 line, such as inside a loop);
 .B module
-to print each warning only only the first time it occurs in each
+to print each warning only the first time it occurs in each
 module;
 .B once
 to print each warning only the first time it occurs in the program; or