From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 16:58:27 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-25735: math.factorial doc should mention integer return type (GH-6420) X-Git-Tag: v3.7.4rc1~78 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc3b8437c86167983cc75e5a9a3ed1dc542a1b79;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-25735: math.factorial doc should mention integer return type (GH-6420) (cherry picked from commit 4612671df2742eade8ecf8003a6ce1247973c135) Co-authored-by: Akshay Sharma --- diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst index b06b054d516a..fd96d7a95864 100644 --- a/Doc/library/math.rst +++ b/Doc/library/math.rst @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Number-theoretic and representation functions .. function:: factorial(x) - Return *x* factorial. Raises :exc:`ValueError` if *x* is not integral or + Return *x* factorial as an integer. Raises :exc:`ValueError` if *x* is not integral or is negative. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-08-19-09-22.bpo-25735.idVQBD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-08-19-09-22.bpo-25735.idVQBD.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8d22cf69e170 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-08-19-09-22.bpo-25735.idVQBD.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Added documentation for func factorial to indicate that returns integer values