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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2016-03-13 06:58:24 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2016-03-13 06:58:24 (GMT)
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Issue #26548: Minor fix to awkward wording in docs
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@@ -397,8 +397,8 @@ Bitwise Operations on Integer Types
operator: >>
Bitwise operations only make sense 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).
+as their 2's complement value (this assumes that there are enough bits so 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