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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:22:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Fix misleading statement about mixed-type numeric comparisons (GH-18615) (GH-18737)
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Fix misleading statement about mixed-type numeric comparisons (GH-18615) (GH-18737)

(cherry picked from commit 9f1cb1bb49476246de5d9ed5fe680301cf7f7571)

Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 5e9b59eb84bb..c4c4ccd76d5a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -263,8 +263,10 @@ 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 000000000000..b7a02522bbb1
--- /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.