[Python-checkins] bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations (GH-20347) (GH-20415)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c2a177adf3575d4eb81030fba851f78d7a8e3f51
commit: c2a177adf3575d4eb81030fba851f78d7a8e3f51
branch: 3.8
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date: 2020-05-26T09:33:42+01:00
summary:

bpo-39301: State that floor division is used for right shift operations (GH-20347) (GH-20415)

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

* Remove "without overflow check"
(cherry picked from commit af7553ac95a96713be847dd45bc5a8aeb0a75955)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 8cc57c30c322c..ccd2f99ccb34f 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