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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 14:30:18 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 14:30:18 (GMT)
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Remove mentions of "plain" integers.
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@@ -565,9 +565,9 @@ Numeric literals
floating point literal, hexadecimal literal
octal literal, binary literal, decimal literal, imaginary literal, complex literal
-There are three types of numeric literals: plain integers, floating point
-numbers, and imaginary numbers. There are no complex literals
-(complex numbers can be formed by adding a real number and an imaginary number).
+There are three types of numeric literals: integers, floating point numbers, and
+imaginary numbers. There are no complex literals (complex numbers can be formed
+by adding a real number and an imaginary number).
Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like ``-1`` is
actually an expression composed of the unary operator '``-``' and the literal