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| author | Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> | 2020-03-02 08:57:27 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-03-02 08:57:27 +0000 |
| commit | 9f1cb1bb49476246de5d9ed5fe680301cf7f7571 (patch) | |
| tree | 953ef92261082834319b23e20eb8cfbd08d83b4a | |
| parent | 28d0bcac8b7e6dbd28311f1283dabb6a4d649fcb (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-9f1cb1bb49476246de5d9ed5fe680301cf7f7571.tar.gz | |
Fix misleading statement about mixed-type numeric comparisons (GH-18615)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 435ba5b74f..881c15d8f7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -261,8 +261,10 @@ and imaginary parts. Python fully supports mixed arithmetic: when a binary arithmetic operator has operands of different numeric types, the operand with the "narrower" type is widened to that of the other, where integer is narrower than floating point, -which is narrower than complex. Comparisons between numbers of mixed type use -the same rule. [2]_ The constructors :func:`int`, :func:`float`, and +which is narrower than complex. A comparison between numbers of different types +behaves as though the exact values of those numbers were being compared. [2]_ + +The constructors :func:`int`, :func:`float`, and :func:`complex` can be used to produce numbers of a specific type. All numeric types (except complex) support the following operations (for priorities of diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b7a02522bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-23-13-26-40.bpo-39530._bCvzQ.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons. |