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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2012-01-25 21:29:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2012-01-25 21:29:03 (GMT) |
| commit | e9fca253d0b0f2f62f84dbcf7e12e5eef0fc6e34 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c32cd923409cf94ef51347f5a10401e3d679508 | |
| parent | a50c28407687b8baf1ea12f4adbf2516223a12a2 (diff) | |
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say bitwise (because I have no idea what a bit-string is)
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index d32bf87..aba58ec 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -379,12 +379,12 @@ modules. .. _bitstring-ops: -Bit-string Operations on Integer Types +Bitwise Operations on Integer Types -------------------------------------- .. index:: triple: operations on; integer; types - pair: bit-string; operations + pair: bitwise; operations pair: shifting; operations pair: masking; operations operator: ^ @@ -392,15 +392,15 @@ Bit-string Operations on Integer Types operator: << operator: >> -Integers support additional operations that make sense only for bit-strings. -Negative numbers are treated as their 2's complement value (this assumes a -sufficiently large number of bits that no overflow occurs during the operation). +Bitwise operations only make sense only for integers. Negative numbers are +treated as their 2's complement value (this assumes a sufficiently large number +of bits that no overflow occurs during the operation). The priorities of the binary bitwise operations are all lower than the numeric operations and higher than the comparisons; the unary operation ``~`` has the same priority as the other unary numeric operations (``+`` and ``-``). -This table lists the bit-string operations sorted in ascending priority +This table lists the bitwise operations sorted in ascending priority (operations in the same box have the same priority): +------------+--------------------------------+----------+ |