diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/functions.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 08566fa..4236253 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: abs(x) - Return the absolute value of a number. The argument may be a plain or long + Return the absolute value of a number. The argument may be an integer or a floating point number. If the argument is a complex number, its magnitude is returned. @@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. Take two (non complex) numbers as arguments and return a pair of numbers consisting of their quotient and remainder when using long division. With mixed - operand types, the rules for binary arithmetic operators apply. For plain and - long integers, the result is the same as ``(a // b, a % b)``. For floating point + operand types, the rules for binary arithmetic operators apply. For integers, + the result is the same as ``(a // b, a % b)``. For floating point numbers the result is ``(q, a % b)``, where *q* is usually ``math.floor(a / b)`` but may be 1 less than that. In any case ``q * b + a % b`` is very close to *a*, if ``a % b`` is non-zero it has the same sign as *b*, and ``0 <= abs(a % b) @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. Convert a string or a number to floating point. If the argument is a string, it must contain a possibly signed decimal or floating point number, possibly - embedded in whitespace. Otherwise, the argument may be a plain or long integer + embedded in whitespace. Otherwise, the argument may be an integer or a floating point number, and a floating point number with the same value (within Python's floating point precision) is returned. If no argument is given, returns ``0.0``. @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: id(object) - Return the "identity" of an object. This is an integer (or long integer) which + Return the "identity" of an object. This is an integer which is guaranteed to be unique and constant for this object during its lifetime. Two objects with non-overlapping lifetimes may have the same :func:`id` value. (Implementation note: this is the address of the object.) @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. form ``pow(x, y)`` is equivalent to using the power operator: ``x**y``. The arguments must have numeric types. With mixed operand types, the coercion - rules for binary arithmetic operators apply. For int and long int operands, the + rules for binary arithmetic operators apply. For :class:`int` operands, the result has the same type as the operands (after coercion) unless the second argument is negative; in that case, all arguments are converted to float and a float result is delivered. For example, ``10**2`` returns ``100``, but |