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  r74542 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-23 23:28:56 +0200 (So, 23 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  Restore alphabetic order.
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  r74544 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:12:30 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6775: fix python.org URLs in README.
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  r74545 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:14:29 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6772: mention utf-8 as utf8 alias.
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  r74546 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:20:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6725: spell "namespace" consistently.
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  r74547 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:22:05 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6718: fix example.
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  r74548 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:24:27 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6677: mention "deleting" as an alias for removing files.
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  r74550 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-24 19:48:40 +0200 (Mo, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories.
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  r74554 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 20:59:02 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fix.
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  r74555 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-27 21:02:43 +0200 (Do, 27 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6787: reference fix.
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  r74578 | tarek.ziade | 2009-08-29 15:33:21 +0200 (Sa, 29 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts pipe
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  r74588 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 10:35:01 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6803: fix old name.
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  r74590 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-30 13:51:53 +0200 (So, 30 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  #6801: fix copy-paste oversight.
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  r74603 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-31 08:38:29 +0200 (Mo, 31 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  other -> others where multiple arguments are accepted.
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  r74616 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:46:26 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6808: clarification.
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  r74617 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 09:53:37 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6765: hint that log(x, base) is not very sophisticated.
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  r74618 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:00:47 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6810: add a link to the section about frame objects instead of just a description where to find it.
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  r74621 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-01 10:06:03 +0200 (Di, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6638: fix wrong parameter name and markup a class.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index 6320fa71c5..a62ad240bf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -1166,19 +1166,20 @@ where the input parameters are
    the list of arguments to process (default: ``sys.argv[1:]``)
 
 ``values``
-   object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of optparse.Values)
+   object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of
+   :class:`optparse.Values`)
 
 and the return values are
 
 ``options``
-   the same object that was passed in as ``options``, or the optparse.Values
+   the same object that was passed in as ``values``, or the optparse.Values
    instance created by :mod:`optparse`
 
 ``args``
    the leftover positional arguments after all options have been processed
 
 The most common usage is to supply neither keyword argument.  If you supply
-``options``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one
+``values``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one
 for every option argument stored to an option destination) and returned by
 :meth:`parse_args`.