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| author | Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> | 2020-05-26 08:16:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-05-26 08:16:34 (GMT) |
| commit | af7553ac95a96713be847dd45bc5a8aeb0a75955 (patch) | |
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bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations (GH-20347)
* bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations
* Remove "without overflow check"
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 4e7729c..6a9fdcb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -434,12 +434,10 @@ Notes: Negative shift counts are illegal and cause a :exc:`ValueError` to be raised. (2) - A left shift by *n* bits is equivalent to multiplication by ``pow(2, n)`` - without overflow check. + A left shift by *n* bits is equivalent to multiplication by ``pow(2, n)``. (3) - A right shift by *n* bits is equivalent to division by ``pow(2, n)`` without - overflow check. + A right shift by *n* bits is equivalent to floor division by ``pow(2, n)``. (4) Performing these calculations with at least one extra sign extension bit in |