[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-11 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f8d12cb7d0fd by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #28615: Backport imaginary/complex number text from 3.x. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f8d12cb7d0fd -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I don't like the term 'imaginary number' but the usage is standard, and python does not have 'complex literals' (I checked 2.7 chapter 2 on number literals). So I will apply this. -- assignee: docs@python -> terry.reedy nosy: +terry.reedy ___

[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-09 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: Hi, here is the doc update, to be applied to 2.7 branch. Please review. Thanks :) -- keywords: +patch nosy: +Mariatta Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45418/issue28615.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-07 Thread Berker Peksag
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[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-04 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: For anyone who wants to work on this: this is 5.4 of the python2.7 docs. The wording in the python3 docs (https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types-int-float-complex) is much clearer, if someone wants to prepare a backport patch. ---

[issue28615] Document clarification: Section 5.4 Complex Number

2016-11-04 Thread David.Johnston
New submission from David.Johnston: Section 5.4: Numeric Types Second paragraph reads: Appending 'j' or 'J' to a numeric literal yields a complex number with a zero real part. After reading the table following the paragraphs I thought that the sentence needed revised to the following: Append