From af7553ac95a96713be847dd45bc5a8aeb0a75955 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zackery Spytz Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 02:16:34 -0600 Subject: bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations (GH-20347) * bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations * Remove "without overflow check" --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 4e7729c..6a9fdcb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -434,12 +434,10 @@ Notes: Negative shift counts are illegal and cause a :exc:`ValueError` to be raised. (2) - A left shift by *n* bits is equivalent to multiplication by ``pow(2, n)`` - without overflow check. + A left shift by *n* bits is equivalent to multiplication by ``pow(2, n)``. (3) - A right shift by *n* bits is equivalent to division by ``pow(2, n)`` without - overflow check. + A right shift by *n* bits is equivalent to floor division by ``pow(2, n)``. (4) Performing these calculations with at least one extra sign extension bit in -- cgit v0.12