[docs] Should say 'REAL' not 'FLOAT' as the SQLite datatype in 11.13.1 of sqlite3.

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 08.06.2013 16:25, schrieb Richard Kelsall:
> Hello Python Docs,
> 
> 
> TLDR: I think it should probably say 'REAL' not 'FLOAT' as the SQLite 
> datatype in 11.13.1 of sqlite3.
> 
> 
> I am reading the sqlite3 page
> 
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html
> 
> for Python v2.7.5. It says in 11.13.1:
> 
> "SQLite natively supports only the types TEXT, INTEGER, FLOAT, BLOB and 
> NULL."
> 
> This made me wonder, is this a double or single FLOAT? (I have not used 
> this database or this Python module before.) And I looked in the SQLite 
> documentation here
> 
> http://sqlite.org/datatype3.html
> 
> This says that SQLite version 3 uses an 8 byte (i.e. double) float and has
> this as type REAL. So I go back to the python page thinking maybe this is
> an earlier version of SQLite - maybe Python 2 provides SQLite 2 for
> backwards compatibility and the module name 'sqlite3' does not follow the
> SQLite version number for some reason. I cannot see on this page mention of
> what version of SQLite this module provides, maybe I missed that? But I see
> in 11.13.5.1:
> 
> "SQLite natively supports the following types: NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT,
> BLOB."
> 
> So this internal contradiction makes me think section 11.13.1 is 
> incorrect.
> 
> I feel posting to this public list, of unknown proportions, may be a rather
> loud way of reporting such a minor problem, but the documentation page
> seems to ask me to do this. A wiki might have been an easier and less noisy
> way to suggest corrections. I expect many people would not go to the
> trouble of emailing a public mailing list to get a detail like this
> corrected and that there are many similar bugs which are found but not
> immediately reported for this reason.

Hi Richard,

posting here is exactly the right way of reporting, even if it sometimes
takes a while :)  Thanks for the report, I've fixed this now and it will
appear online soon.

cheers,
Georg
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