[Python-checkins] r68240 - python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Sat Jan 3 23:05:24 CET 2009
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat Jan 3 23:05:22 2009
New Revision: 68240
Log:
Manually merge r67868 from 2.6 branch.
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst Sat Jan 3 23:05:22 2009
@@ -338,15 +338,13 @@
module: math
single: floor() (in module math)
single: ceil() (in module math)
+ single: trunc() (in module math)
pair: numeric; conversions
- pair: C; language
- Conversion from floating point to (long or plain) integer may round or
- truncate as in C; see functions :func:`math.floor` and :func:`math.ceil` for
- well-defined conversions.
-
- .. deprecated:: 2.6
- Instead, convert floats to long explicitly with :func:`trunc`.
+ Conversion from floats using :func:`int` or :func:`long` truncates toward
+ zero like the related function, :func:`math.trunc`. Use the function
+ :func:`math.floor` to round downward and :func:`math.ceil` to round
+ upward.
(3)
See :ref:`built-in-funcs` for a full description.
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