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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 435ba5b..881c15d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -261,8 +261,10 @@ and imaginary parts. Python fully supports mixed arithmetic: when a binary arithmetic operator has operands of different numeric types, the operand with the "narrower" type is widened to that of the other, where integer is narrower than floating point, -which is narrower than complex. Comparisons between numbers of mixed type use -the same rule. [2]_ The constructors :func:`int`, :func:`float`, and +which is narrower than complex. A comparison between numbers of different types +behaves as though the exact values of those numbers were being compared. [2]_ + +The constructors :func:`int`, :func:`float`, and :func:`complex` can be used to produce numbers of a specific type. All numeric types (except complex) support the following operations (for priorities of diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7a0252 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons. |