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benjaminp · benjaminp · commit b548d49f6553 · 2012-10-12T12:05:01.000-04:00
diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ References
 ----------
 
 The ``str`` type is described in the Python library reference at
-:ref:`typesseq`.
+:ref:`textseq`.
 
 The documentation for the :mod:`unicodedata` module.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised.
 .. exception:: StopIteration
 
    Raised by built-in function :func:`next` and an :term:`iterator`\'s
-   :meth:`__next__` method to signal that there are no further items to be
-   produced by the iterator.
+   :meth:`~iterator.__next__` method to signal that there are no further
+   items produced by the iterator.
 
    The exception object has a single attribute :attr:`value`, which is
    given as an argument when constructing the exception, and defaults
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1358,8 +1358,8 @@ Text Sequence Type --- :class:`str`
    object: io.StringIO
 
 
-Textual data in Python is handled with :class:`str` objects, which are
-immutable sequences of Unicode code points.  String literals are
+Textual data in Python is handled with ``str`` objects, which are immutable
+:ref:`sequences <typesseq>` of Unicode code points.  String literals are
 written in a variety of ways:
 
 * Single quotes: ``'allows embedded "double" quotes'``
@@ -1377,8 +1377,8 @@ See :ref:`strings` for more about the various forms of string literal,
 including supported escape sequences, and the ``r`` ("raw") prefix that
 disables most escape sequence processing.
 
-Strings may also be created from other objects with the :ref:`str <func-str>`
-built-in.
+Strings may also be created from other objects with the built-in
+function :func:`str`.
 
 Since there is no separate "character" type, indexing a string produces
 strings of length 1. That is, for a non-empty string *s*, ``s[0] == s[0:1]``.
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 .. seealso::
 
-   :ref:`typesseq`
+   :ref:`textseq`
 
    :ref:`string-methods`
 
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ The built-in function :func:`len` returns the length of a string::
 
 .. seealso::
 
-   :ref:`typesseq`
+   :ref:`textseq`
       Strings are examples of *sequence types*, and support the common
       operations supported by such types.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
+
 - Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading error
   message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or executable
   keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist.
