Merged revisions 62386-62387,62389-62393,62396,62400-62402,62407,62409-62410,62412-62414,62418-62419 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  r62386 | christian.heimes | 2008-04-19 04:23:57 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Added kill, terminate and send_signal to subprocess.Popen
  The bits and pieces for the Windows side were already in place. The POSIX side is trivial (as usual) and uses os.kill().
........
  r62387 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 10:23:59 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix-up docs for revision 62386.
........
  r62389 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:57:43 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2369: clarify that copyfile() doesn't take a target directory.
........
  r62390 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:58:28 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2634: clarify meaning of env parameter to spawn/exec*e.
........
  r62391 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:58:49 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2633: clarify meaning of env parameter.
........
  r62392 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:59:16 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2631: clarify IMPORT_NAME semantics.
........
  r62393 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 19:00:14 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  :func: et al. should *not* include the parens.
........
  r62396 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 20:51:48 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Additional tests for math.pow, and extra special-case
  handling code in math.pow, in the hope of making all
  tests pass on the alpha Tru64 buildbot.
........
  r62400 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 21:41:52 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Additional special-case handling for math.pow.
  Windows/VS2008 doesn't like (-1)**(+-inf).
........
  r62401 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-19 21:47:34 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Complete documentation for errors argument of io's open and TextIOWrapper
........
  r62402 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 22:31:16 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Document updates to math and cmath modules.
........
  r62407 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 23:28:38 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update template for newest Sphinx.
........
  r62409 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 23:35:35 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Correct documentation for math.pow;
  0**nan is nan, not 0.  (But nan**0 and 1**nan are 1.)

  Also fix minor typo: 'quite NaN' -> 'quiet NaN'
........
  r62410 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 23:49:22 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Move asinh documentation to the proper place.
  Remove meaningless 'in radians' from inverse
  hyperbolic functions.
........
  r62412 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 03:22:30 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Report additional diagnostic information in
  test_math, to help track down debian-alpha
  buildbot failure.
........
  r62413 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 03:39:24 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  FreeBSD doesn't follow C99 for modf(inf); so add explicit
  special-value handling to math.modf code.
........
  r62414 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 06:13:13 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Yet more explicit special case handling to make
  math.pow behave on alpha Tru64.  All IEEE 754
  special values are now handled directly; only
  the finite**finite case is handled by libm.
........
  r62418 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 18:13:17 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Issue 2662: Initialize special value tables dynamically (i.e. when
  cmath module is loaded) instead of statically. This fixes compile-time
  problems on platforms where HUGE_VAL is an extern variable rather than
  a constant.

  Thanks Hirokazu Yamamoto for the patch.
........
  r62419 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-20 18:54:02 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Move description of math module changes; various edits to description of cmath changes
........

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst
index 024897f..e906af2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/math.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/math.rst
@@ -143,11 +143,15 @@ Power and logarithmic functions:
 
 .. function:: pow(x, y)
 
-   Return ``x**y``. ``1.0**y`` returns *1.0*, even for ``1.0**nan``. ``0**y``
-   returns *0.* for all positive *y*, *0* and *NAN*.
+   Return ``x`` raised to the power ``y``.  Exceptional cases follow
+   Annex 'F' of the C99 standard as far as possible.  In particular,
+   ``pow(1.0, x)`` and ``pow(x, 0.0)`` always return ``1.0``, even
+   when ``x`` is a zero or a NaN.  If both ``x`` and ``y`` are finite,
+   ``x`` is negative, and ``y`` is not an integer then ``pow(x, y)``
+   is undefined, and raises :exc:`ValueError`.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.6
-      The outcome of ``1**nan`` and ``0**nan`` was undefined.
+      The outcome of ``1**nan`` and ``nan**0`` was undefined.
 
 
 .. function:: sqrt(x)
@@ -198,13 +202,6 @@ Trigonometric functions:
    Return the sine of *x* radians.
 
 
-.. function:: asinh(x)
-
-   Return the inverse hyperbolic sine of *x*, in radians.
-
-   .. versionadded:: 2.6
-
-
 .. function:: tan(x)
 
    Return the tangent of *x* radians.
@@ -224,18 +221,32 @@ Angular conversion:
 Hyperbolic functions:
 
 
-.. function:: cosh(x)
+.. function:: acosh(x)
 
-   Return the hyperbolic cosine of *x*.
+   Return the inverse hyperbolic cosine of *x*.
 
+   .. versionadded:: 2.6
 
-.. function:: acosh(x)
 
-   Return the inverse hyperbolic cosine of *x*, in radians.
+.. function:: asinh(x)
+
+   Return the inverse hyperbolic sine of *x*.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.6
 
 
+.. function:: atanh(x)
+
+   Return the inverse hyperbolic tangent of *x*.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+
+.. function:: cosh(x)
+
+   Return the hyperbolic cosine of *x*.
+
+
 .. function:: sinh(x)
 
    Return the hyperbolic sine of *x*.
@@ -246,12 +257,6 @@ Hyperbolic functions:
    Return the hyperbolic tangent of *x*.
 
 
-.. function:: atanh(x)
-
-   Return the inverse hyperbolic tangent of *x*, in radians.
-
-   .. versionadded:: 2.6
-
 
 The module also defines two mathematical constants:
 
@@ -279,7 +284,7 @@ The module also defines two mathematical constants:
    :exc:`OverflowError` isn't defined, and in cases where ``math.log(0)`` raises
    :exc:`OverflowError`, ``math.log(0L)`` may raise :exc:`ValueError` instead.
 
-   All functions return a quite *NaN* if at least one of the args is *NaN*.
+   All functions return a quiet *NaN* if at least one of the args is *NaN*.
    Signaling *NaN*s raise an exception. The exception type still depends on the
    platform and libm implementation. It's usually :exc:`ValueError` for *EDOM*
    and :exc:`OverflowError` for errno *ERANGE*.