From: Mark Dickinson Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #6354 continued: reword confusing tutorial note on the (no-longer X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~2960 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af15f3c0849970bd82241167df69fd94c7199988;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #6354 continued: reword confusing tutorial note on the (no-longer existing) difference between str(8/5) and repr(8/5). --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst index 1b3faae64b3a..b279f7118038 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst @@ -60,16 +60,9 @@ operators ``+``, ``-``, ``*`` and ``/`` work just like in most other languages Note: You might not see exactly the same result; floating point results can differ from one machine to another. We will say more later about controlling -the appearance of floating point output; what we see here is the most -informative display but not as easy to read as we would get with:: - - >>> print(8/5) - 1.6 - -For clarity in this tutorial we will show the simpler floating point output -unless we are specifically discussing output formatting, and explain later -why these two ways of displaying floating point data come to be different. -See :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a full discussion. +the appearance of floating point output. See also :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a +full discussion of some of the subtleties of floating point numbers and their +representations. To do integer division and get an integer result, discarding any fractional result, there is another operator, ``//``::