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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2008-07-16 11:30:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2008-07-16 11:30:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 65fe25e59710eada7eb41bddb45bdca8b61b5668 (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 64974 via svnmerge from
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r64974 | mark.dickinson | 2008-07-15 20:08:33 +0100 (Tue, 15 Jul 2008) | 3 lines
Issue #3008: add instance method float.hex and class method float.fromhex
to convert floats to and from hexadecimal strings respectively.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index df5ccb6..264ec2e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1397,6 +1397,11 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. :func:`isnan`, return true if their floating-point argument is infinite or Not A Number. (:issue:`1640`) + The float type has a new instance method :meth:`float.hex` and a + corresponding new class method :meth:`float.fromhex` to convert + floating-point numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, + respectively. (:issue:`3008`) + * The :mod:`math` module has a number of new functions, and the existing functions have been improved to give more consistent behaviour across platforms, especially with respect to handling of |