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author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-09-25 23:23:33 (GMT) |
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committer | Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-09-25 23:23:33 (GMT) |
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bpo-31571: Remove duplicated info in Lexical Analysis documentation (GH-3691) (GH-3754)
- Remove the second mention about the `u` prefix
- Remove the second mention about numeric literals do not include a sign
(cherry picked from commit 4a2d00cb4525fcb3209f04531472ba6a359ed418)
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index c2fd2b7..4a5abf6 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -446,9 +446,6 @@ instance of the :class:`bytes` type instead of the :class:`str` type. They may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater must be expressed with escapes. -As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix string literals with a -``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases. - Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'`` or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as literal characters. As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'`` @@ -799,10 +796,6 @@ Some examples of floating point literals:: 3.14 10. .001 1e100 3.14e-10 0e0 3.14_15_93 -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 -``1``. - .. versionchanged:: 3.6 Underscores are now allowed for grouping purposes in literals. |