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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2000-07-02 20:17:08 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2000-07-02 20:17:08 (GMT)
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Repair docs for math.frexp (they were wrong).
Reported on c.l.py by Kirill Simonov.
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diff --git a/Modules/mathmodule.c b/Modules/mathmodule.c
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--- a/Modules/mathmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mathmodule.c
@@ -171,7 +171,9 @@ math_frexp(self, args)
static char math_frexp_doc [] =
"frexp(x)\n\
\n\
-Return the matissa and exponent for x. The mantissa is positive.";
+Return the matissa and exponent of x, as pair (m, e).\n\
+m is a float and e is an int, such that x = m * 2.**e.\n\
+If x is 0, m and e are both 0. Else 0.5 <= abs(m) < 1.0.";
static PyObject *