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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 84666ee..a2ee932 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -383,12 +383,12 @@ modules. .. _bitstring-ops: -Bit-string Operations on Integer Types +Bitwise Operations on Integer Types -------------------------------------- .. index:: triple: operations on; integer; types - pair: bit-string; operations + pair: bitwise; operations pair: shifting; operations pair: masking; operations operator: ^ @@ -396,15 +396,15 @@ Bit-string Operations on Integer Types operator: << operator: >> -Integers support additional operations that make sense only for bit-strings. -Negative numbers are treated as their 2's complement value (this assumes a -sufficiently large number of bits that no overflow occurs during the operation). +Bitwise operations only make sense for integers. Negative numbers are treated +as their 2's complement value (this assumes a sufficiently large number of bits +that no overflow occurs during the operation). The priorities of the binary bitwise operations are all lower than the numeric operations and higher than the comparisons; the unary operation ``~`` has the same priority as the other unary numeric operations (``+`` and ``-``). -This table lists the bit-string operations sorted in ascending priority +This table lists the bitwise operations sorted in ascending priority (operations in the same box have the same priority): +------------+--------------------------------+----------+ |