Author: benjamin.peterson Date: Thu Oct 30 23:44:18 2008 New Revision: 67061 Log: finish backporting binary literals and new octal literals docs Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst python/trunk/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst ============================================================================== --- python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst (original) +++ python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst Thu Oct 30 23:44:18 2008 @@ -246,14 +246,15 @@ pair: octal; literals Numbers are created by numeric literals or as the result of built-in functions -and operators. Unadorned integer literals (including hex and octal numbers) -yield plain integers unless the value they denote is too large to be represented -as a plain integer, in which case they yield a long integer. Integer literals -with an ``'L'`` or ``'l'`` suffix yield long integers (``'L'`` is preferred -because ``1l`` looks too much like eleven!). Numeric literals containing a -decimal point or an exponent sign yield floating point numbers. Appending -``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields a complex number with a zero real -part. A complex numeric literal is the sum of a real and an imaginary part. +and operators. Unadorned integer literals (including binary, hex, and octal +numbers) yield plain integers unless the value they denote is too large to be +represented as a plain integer, in which case they yield a long integer. +Integer literals with an ``'L'`` or ``'l'`` suffix yield long integers (``'L'`` +is preferred because ``1l`` looks too much like eleven!). Numeric literals +containing a decimal point or an exponent sign yield floating point numbers. +Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields a complex number with a +zero real part. A complex numeric literal is the sum of a real and an imaginary +part. .. index:: single: arithmetic Modified: python/trunk/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst ============================================================================== --- python/trunk/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst (original) +++ python/trunk/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst Thu Oct 30 23:44:18 2008 @@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ single: long integer literal single: floating point literal single: hexadecimal literal + single: binary literal single: octal literal single: decimal literal single: imaginary literal @@ -631,11 +632,12 @@ longinteger: `integer` ("l" | "L") integer: `decimalinteger` | `octinteger` | `hexinteger` | `bininteger` decimalinteger: `nonzerodigit` `digit`* | "0" - octinteger: "0" `octdigit`+ + octinteger: "0" ("o" | "O") `octdigit`+ | "0" `octdigit`+ hexinteger: "0" ("x" | "X") `hexdigit`+ bininteger: "0" ("b" | "B") `bindigit`+ nonzerodigit: "1"..."9" octdigit: "0"..."7" + bindigit: "0" | "1" hexdigit: `digit` | "a"..."f" | "A"..."F" Although both lower case ``'l'`` and upper case ``'L'`` are allowed as suffix