[Python-checkins] r75764 - in python/branches/release26-maint: Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst

[georg.brandl]

Author: georg.brandl
Date: Tue Oct 27 14:28:11 2009
New Revision: 75764

Log:
Merged revisions 69131,69140-69141,69155 via svnmerge from 
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r69131 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-31 04:26:02 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
  
  Text edits and markup fixes
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  r69140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 17:52:03 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
  
  PyErr_BadInternalCall() raises a SystemError, not TypeError #5112
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  r69141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 21:01:48 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
  
  fix indentation
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  r69155 | david.goodger | 2009-01-31 23:53:46 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
  
  markup fix
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Modified:
   python/branches/release26-maint/   (props changed)
   python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
   python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst

Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
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--- python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst	Tue Oct 27 14:28:11 2009
@@ -291,9 +291,10 @@
 
 .. cfunction:: void PyErr_BadInternalCall()
 
-   This is a shorthand for ``PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, message)``, where
-   *message* indicates that an internal operation (e.g. a Python/C API function)
-   was invoked with an illegal argument.  It is mostly for internal use.
+   This is a shorthand for ``PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError, message)``,
+   where *message* indicates that an internal operation (e.g. a Python/C API
+   function) was invoked with an illegal argument.  It is mostly for internal
+   use.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: int PyErr_WarnEx(PyObject *category, char *message, int stacklevel)

Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
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--- python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst	Tue Oct 27 14:28:11 2009
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and
 almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 "double precision".  754
 doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to
-convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2\*\**N* where *J* is
+convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2**\ *N* where *J* is
 an integer containing exactly 53 bits.  Rewriting ::
 
    1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N)