From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:42:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added comment about support for rational numbers, and pointer to
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a2~309
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b134bf716eecf5afa11259fdc720a26bcce15f0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Added comment about support for rational numbers, and pointer to
Demos/classes/Rat.py.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmpz.tex b/Doc/lib/libmpz.tex
index c761ea102281..eb5dea81bbb7 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libmpz.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libmpz.tex
@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@ arithmetic routines.  Only the interfaces to the \emph{integer}
 (\function{mpz_*()}) routines are provided. If not stated
 otherwise, the description in the GNU MP documentation can be applied.
 
+Support for rational numbers\index{rational numbers} can be
+implemented in Python.  For an example, see the \module{Rat}%
+\withsubitem{(demo module)}{\ttindex{Rat}} module, provided as
+\file{Demos/classes/Rat.py} in the Python source distribution.
+
 In general, \dfn{mpz}-numbers can be used just like other standard
-Python numbers, e.g.\ you can use the built-in operators like \code{+},
+Python numbers, e.g., you can use the built-in operators like \code{+},
 \code{*}, etc., as well as the standard built-in functions like
 \function{abs()}, \function{int()}, \ldots, \function{divmod()},
 \function{pow()}.  \strong{Please note:} the \emph{bitwise-xor}