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  r65259 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-27 10:22:14 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  clarify Popen argument
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  r65263 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-28 12:04:48 -0500 (Mon, 28 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Clarify wording
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  r65296 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-30 02:27:30 -0500 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Neaten-up the itertools recipes.
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  r65307 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-30 08:46:53 -0500 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  getrandombits is actually getrandbits
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  r65321 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-30 20:19:50 -0500 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  Alter recipe to show how to call izip_longest() with
  both a keyword argument and star arguments.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -566,8 +566,7 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
    def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
        "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
        args = [iter(iterable)] * n
-       kwds = dict(fillvalue=fillvalue)
-       return zip_longest(*args, **kwds)
+       return zip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
 
    def roundrobin(*iterables):
        "roundrobin('ABC', 'D', 'EF') --> A D E B F C"
diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ instances of :class:`Random` to get generators that don't share state.
 Class :class:`Random` can also be subclassed if you want to use a different
 basic generator of your own devising: in that case, override the :meth:`random`,
 :meth:`seed`, :meth:`getstate`, and :meth:`setstate`.
-Optionally, a new generator can supply a :meth:`getrandombits` method --- this
+Optionally, a new generator can supply a :meth:`getrandbits` method --- this
 allows :meth:`randrange` to produce selections over an arbitrarily large range.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ This module defines one class called :class:`Popen`:
 
    Arguments are:
 
-   *args* should be a string, or a sequence of program arguments.  The program to
-   execute is normally the first item in the args sequence or string, but can be
-   explicitly set by using the executable argument.
+   *args* should be a string, or a sequence of program arguments.  The program
+   to execute is normally the first item in the args sequence or the string if a
+   string is given, but can be explicitly set by using the *executable*
+   argument.
 
    On Unix, with *shell=False* (default): In this case, the Popen class uses
    :meth:`os.execvp` to execute the child program. *args* should normally be a
diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
     Class Random can also be subclassed if you want to use a different basic
     generator of your own devising: in that case, override the following
     methods:  random(), seed(), getstate(), and setstate().
-    Optionally, implement a getrandombits() method so that randrange()
+    Optionally, implement a getrandbits() method so that randrange()
     can cover arbitrarily large ranges.
 
     """
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -1257,8 +1257,7 @@ def __init__(self, newarg=None, *args):
 >>> def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
 ...     "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
 ...     args = [iter(iterable)] * n
-...     kwds = dict(fillvalue=fillvalue)
-...     return zip_longest(*args, **kwds)
+...     return zip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
 
 >>> def roundrobin(*iterables):
 ...     "roundrobin('ABC', 'D', 'EF') --> A D E B F C"
