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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index dae9b09..3f89c03 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ doing ``isinstance(obj, Number)``. Numbers are further divided into :class:`Exact` and :class:`Inexact`. Exact numbers can represent values precisely and operations never round off the results or introduce tiny errors that may break the -communtativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may +commutativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may perform such rounding or introduce small errors. Integers, long integers, and rational numbers are exact, while floating-point and complex numbers are inexact. @@ -707,8 +707,10 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. Other functions in the :mod:`math` module, :func:`isinf` and :func:`isnan`, return true if their floating-point argument is - infinite or Not A Number. + infinite or Not A Number. + .. Patch 1640 + The ``math.copysign(x, y)`` function copies the sign bit of an IEEE 754 number, returning the absolute value of *x* combined with the sign bit of *y*. For example, @@ -1078,7 +1080,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. * Integrating signal handling with GUI handling event loops like those used by Tkinter or GTk+ has long been a problem; most - software ends up polling, waking up every fraction of a second. Thi + software ends up polling, waking up every fraction of a second. The :mod:`signal` module can now make this more efficient. Calling ``signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd)`` sets a file descriptor to be used; when a signal is received, a byte is written to that @@ -1293,7 +1295,8 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. z.extractall() (Contributed by Alan McIntyre.) - .. % Patch 467924 + + .. Patch 467924 .. ====================================================================== .. whole new modules get described in subsections here @@ -1392,7 +1395,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: .. Issue 1534 * Python's C API now includes two functions for case-insensitive string - comparisions, ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)`` + comparisons, ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``. (Contributed by Christian Heimes.) |