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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2008-01-14 14:48:43 (GMT)
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Update description of float_info
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@@ -935,11 +935,11 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
.. Patch #957003
* A new variable in the :mod:`sys` module,
- :attr:`float_info`, is a dictionary
+ :attr:`float_info`, is an object
containing information about the platform's floating-point support
- derived from the :file:`float.h` file. Key/value pairs
- in this dictionary include
- ``"mant_dig"`` (number of digits in the mantissa), ``"epsilon"``
+ derived from the :file:`float.h` file. Attributes of this object
+ include
+ :attr:`mant_dig` (number of digits in the mantissa), :attr:`epsilon`
(smallest difference between 1.0 and the next largest value
representable), and several others. (Contributed by Christian Heimes.)