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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/expressions.rst | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 0ec255f..3c7f8e6 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Ellipsis object is accessed through the literal ``...`` or the built-in name ``Ellipsis``. Its truth value is true. -Numbers +:class:`numbers.Number` .. index:: object: numeric These are created by numeric literals and returned as results by arithmetic @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Numbers Python distinguishes between integers, floating point numbers, and complex numbers: - Integers + :class:`numbers.Integral` .. index:: object: integer These represent elements from the mathematical set of integers (positive and @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ Numbers operation except left shift, if it yields a result in the plain integer domain without causing overflow, will yield the same result when using mixed operands. - Floating point numbers + :class:`numbers.Real` (:class:`float`) .. index:: object: floating point pair: floating point; number @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Numbers overhead of using objects in Python, so there is no reason to complicate the language with two kinds of floating point numbers. - Complex numbers + :class:`numbers.Complex` .. index:: object: complex pair: complex; number diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index 6e160ee..cf95636 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -768,7 +768,8 @@ float result is delivered. For example, ``10**2`` returns ``100``, but ``10**-2`` returns ``0.01``. Raising ``0.0`` to a negative power results in a :exc:`ZeroDivisionError`. -Raising a negative number to a fractional power results in a :exc:`ValueError`. +Raising a negative number to a fractional power results in a :class:`complex` +number. (Since Python 2.6. In earlier versions it raised a :exc:`ValueError`.) .. _unary: |