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  r70342 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-13 14:03:58 -0500 (Fri, 13 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5486: typos.
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  r70385 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-15 09:38:55 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix tuple.index() error message #5495
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  r70386 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:32:06 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5496: fix docstring of lookup().
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  r70387 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:37:16 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5493: clarify __nonzero__ docs.
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  r70389 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:43:38 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a small nit in the error message if bool() falls back on __len__ and it returns the wrong type: it would tell the user that __nonzero__ should return bool or int.
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  r70390 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:44:43 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5491: clarify nested() semantics.
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  r70392 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:46:00 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5488: add missing struct member.
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  r70393 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:47:42 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5478: fix copy-paste oversight in function signature.
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  r70395 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:51:48 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5276: document IDLESTARTUP and .Idle.py.
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  r70400 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:59:37 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix markup in re docs and give a mail address in regex howto, so that
  the recommendation to send suggestions to the author can be followed.
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  r70405 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 17:11:07 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 7 lines

  Move the previously local import of threading to module level.

  This is cleaner and avoids lockups in obscure cases where a Queue
  is instantiated while the import lock is already held by another thread.

  OKed by Tim Peters.
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  r70406 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-03-15 17:43:14 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Added skip for old MSVC.
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  r70418 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-16 14:42:03 -0500 (Mon, 16 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Add token markup.
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  r70438 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-17 15:29:51 -0500 (Tue, 17 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  I thought this was begging for an example
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  r70464 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-18 15:58:09 -0500 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  a much better example
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  r70468 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-18 22:04:31 -0500 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  close files after comparing them
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diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst
index 413750fda5..1b78fb9bc1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/idle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst
@@ -253,6 +253,24 @@ Shell colors:
       black
 
 
+Startup
+-------
+
+Upon startup with the ``-s`` option, IDLE will execute the file referenced by
+the environment variables :envvar:`IDLESTARTUP` or :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`.
+Idle first checks for ``IDLESTARTUP``; if ``IDLESTARTUP`` is present the file
+referenced is run.  If ``IDLESTARTUP`` is not present, Idle checks for
+``PYTHONSTARTUP``.  Files referenced by these environment variables are
+convenient places to store functions that are used frequently from the Idle
+shell, or for executing import statements to import common modules.
+
+In addition, ``Tk`` also loads a startup file if it is present.  Note that the
+Tk file is loaded unconditionally.  This additional file is ``.Idle.py`` and is
+looked for in the user's home directory.  Statements in this file will be
+executed in the Tk namespace, so this file is not useful for importing functions
+to be used from Idle's Python shell.
+
+
 Command line usage
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^