[Python-checkins] bpo-31571: Remove duplicated info in Lexical Analysis documentation (GH-3691)

Mariatta webhook-mailer at python.org
Mon Sep 25 19:16:57 EDT 2017


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4a2d00cb4525fcb3209f04531472ba6a359ed418
commit: 4a2d00cb4525fcb3209f04531472ba6a359ed418
branch: master
author: Guilherme Caminha <gpkc at cin.ufpe.br>
committer: Mariatta <Mariatta at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2017-09-25T16:16:54-07:00
summary:

bpo-31571: Remove duplicated info in Lexical Analysis documentation (GH-3691)

- Remove the second mention about the `u` prefix
- Remove the second mention about numeric literals do not include a sign

files:
M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 684119a4439..caa59e503d5 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -446,9 +446,6 @@ instance of the :class:`bytes` type instead of the :class:`str` type.  They
 may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater
 must be expressed with escapes.
 
-As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix string literals with a
-``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases.
-
 Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'``
 or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as
 literal characters.  As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'``
@@ -799,10 +796,6 @@ Some examples of floating point literals::
 
    3.14    10.    .001    1e100    3.14e-10    0e0    3.14_15_93
 
-Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like ``-1`` is
-actually an expression composed of the unary operator ``-`` and the literal
-``1``.
-
 .. versionchanged:: 3.6
    Underscores are now allowed for grouping purposes in literals.
 



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