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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index abe1ce0..00f5aea 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ which can be read by the interpreter (or will force a :exc:`SyntaxError` if there is not equivalent syntax). For objects which don't have a particular representation for human consumption, :func:`str` will return the same value as :func:`repr`. Many values, such as numbers or structures like lists and -dictionaries, have the same representation using either function. Strings and -floating point numbers, in particular, have two distinct representations. +dictionaries, have the same representation using either function. Strings, in +particular, have two distinct representations. Some examples:: @@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ Some examples:: 'Hello, world.' >>> repr(s) "'Hello, world.'" - >>> str(1.0/7.0) - '0.142857142857' - >>> repr(1.0/7.0) + >>> str(1/7) '0.14285714285714285' >>> x = 10 * 3.25 >>> y = 200 * 200 @@ -162,7 +160,7 @@ Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined:: An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This allows greater control over how the value is formatted. The following example -truncates Pi to three places after the decimal. +rounds Pi to three places after the decimal. >>> import math >>> print('The value of PI is approximately {0:.3f}.'.format(math.pi)) @@ -207,7 +205,7 @@ Old string formatting --------------------- The ``%`` operator can also be used for string formatting. It interprets the -left argument much like a :cfunc:`sprintf`\ -style format string to be applied +left argument much like a :c:func:`sprintf`\ -style format string to be applied to the right argument, and returns the string resulting from this formatting operation. For example:: |