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MH: by "a set of specific patches (in text form)" I meant an ascii 
text file with each item indicating a specific slice or location in 
the existing doc (possibly by quotation) and a suggested new text 
to insert.  The site/doc maintainers have said that this is enough: 
if they agree with the new text, they will add the latex markup and 
produce the 'real patch'.  Judging from your writing here, you 
seem quite capable of producing literate (ascii-text) sentences.

SM: I currently disagree with this being reopened.  1) The items 
may need updating (like much library code) but this does not 
make them wrong (buggy).  2) The "Programmer's FAQ' is not 
part of the official doc defining the language and implementation 
nor, last I knew, is it part of the distribution.  To me, it is one of 
hundred's of supplementary web pages, including the PEPs, 
some at python.org and some elsewhere. 3) the site gives its own 
address, not here, for submitting suggestions, like this, for 
improvememt.