[Python-checkins] r73641 - in python/branches/release31-maint: Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst

[mark.dickinson]

Author: mark.dickinson
Date: Sun Jun 28 23:20:21 2009
New Revision: 73641

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  r73640 | mark.dickinson | 2009-06-28 22:19:18 +0100 (Sun, 28 Jun 2009) | 3 lines
  
  Issue #6354 continued:  reword confusing tutorial note on the (no-longer
  existing) difference between str(8/5) and repr(8/5).
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--- python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst	(original)
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@@ -60,16 +60,9 @@
 
 Note: You might not see exactly the same result; floating point results can
 differ from one machine to another.  We will say more later about controlling
-the appearance of floating point output; what we see here is the most
-informative display but not as easy to read as we would get with::
-
-   >>> print(8/5)
-   1.6
-
-For clarity in this tutorial we will show the simpler floating point output
-unless we are specifically discussing output formatting, and explain later
-why these two ways of displaying floating point data come to be different.
-See :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a full discussion.
+the appearance of floating point output.  See also :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a
+full discussion of some of the subtleties of floating point numbers and their
+representations.
 
 To do integer division and get an integer result,
 discarding any fractional result, there is another operator, ``//``::