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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-10-03 10:14:34 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-10-03 10:14:34 (GMT)
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Issue #7028: Add note to hex() builtin docs pointing to float.hex().
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@@ -510,6 +510,11 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
Convert an integer number (of any size) to a hexadecimal string. The result is a
valid Python expression.
+ .. note::
+
+ To obtain a hexadecimal string representation for a float, use the
+ :meth:`float.hex` method.
+
.. versionchanged:: 2.4
Formerly only returned an unsigned literal.