[Python-checkins] bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations (GH-20347)

[Zackery Spytz]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/af7553ac95a96713be847dd45bc5a8aeb0a75955
commit: af7553ac95a96713be847dd45bc5a8aeb0a75955
branch: master
author: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-05-26T09:16:34+01:00
summary:

bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations (GH-20347)

* bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations

* Remove "without overflow check"

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 4e7729c83f49a..6a9fdcb38d24b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -434,12 +434,10 @@ Notes:
    Negative shift counts are illegal and cause a :exc:`ValueError` to be raised.
 
 (2)
-   A left shift by *n* bits is equivalent to multiplication by ``pow(2, n)``
-   without overflow check.
+   A left shift by *n* bits is equivalent to multiplication by ``pow(2, n)``.
 
 (3)
-   A right shift by *n* bits is equivalent to division by ``pow(2, n)`` without
-   overflow check.
+   A right shift by *n* bits is equivalent to floor division by ``pow(2, n)``.
 
 (4)
    Performing these calculations with at least one extra sign extension bit in