Bug in math.frexp?

[david_ullrich at my-deja.com]

In article <14688.12945.528521.351944 at cj42289-a.reston1.va.home.com>,
  "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at beopen.com> wrote:
>
> Tim Peters writes:
>  > The docs are wrong.  I just checked in a repaired version of
mathmodule.c.
>  > Fred, would you please get the truth into the Library Reference
Manual's
>  > math module docs too?
>
>   --sigh--
>   So are the Solaris and Linux man pages wrong, or just confusing?

    I found some Linux docs on this that said

"If the  argument  x is not zero, the normalized fraction
is x times a power of two, and  is  always  in  the
range  1/2 (inclusive) to 1 (exclusive)."

     This is not just wrong or confusing, this is _impossible_
if x < 0; a negative number simply is not a power of two times
a number in the range [1/2, 1).

DU

> Ok, I'll have something like your docstring checked in shortly.
>
>   -Fred
>
> --
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at beopen.com>
> BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member
>
>


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