From f91c70a7bd662428fd39c1b2e8987e060b75074d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:28:18 +0000 Subject: Change references to the new math functions to generate proper x-refs. --- Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 3d1ea51..120de3b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1350,29 +1350,28 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. floating-point exceptions and IEEE 754 special values. The new functions are: - * :func:`isinf` and :func:`isnan` determine whether a given float is - a (positive or negative) infinity or a NaN (Not a Number), - respectively. + * :func:`~math.isinf` and :func:`~math.isnan` determine whether a given float + is a (positive or negative) infinity or a NaN (Not a Number), respectively. - * ``copysign(x, y)`` copies the sign bit of an IEEE 754 number, + * :func:`~math.copysign` copies the sign bit of an IEEE 754 number, returning the absolute value of *x* combined with the sign bit of *y*. For example, ``math.copysign(1, -0.0)`` returns -1.0. (Contributed by Christian Heimes.) - * :func:`factorial` computes the factorial of a number. + * :func:`~math.factorial` computes the factorial of a number. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`2138`.) - * :func:`sum` adds up the stream of numbers from an iterable, + * :func:`~math.sum` adds up the stream of numbers from an iterable, and is careful to avoid loss of precision by calculating partial sums. (Contributed by Jean Brouwers; :issue:`2819`.) - * The inverse hyperbolic functions :func:`acosh`, :func:`asinh` and - :func:`atanh`. + * The inverse hyperbolic functions :func:`~math.acosh`, :func:`~math.asinh` + and :func:`~math.atanh`. - * The function :func:`log1p`, returning the natural logarithm of - *1+x* (base *e*). + * The function :func:`~math.log1p`, returning the natural logarithm of *1+x* + (base *e*). - There's also a new :func:`trunc` function as a result of the + There's also a new :func:`trunc` built-in function as a result of the backport of `PEP 3141's type hierarchy for numbers <#pep-3141>`__. The existing math functions have been modified to follow the -- cgit v0.12