[Python-checkins] bpo-31571: Remove duplicated info in Lexical Analysis documentation (GH-3691) (GH-3754)

[Mariatta]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/26b940f762f0b306ff894601003f51a8d036e285
commit: 26b940f762f0b306ff894601003f51a8d036e285
branch: 3.6
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Mariatta <Mariatta at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2017-09-25T16:23:33-07:00
summary:

bpo-31571: Remove duplicated info in Lexical Analysis documentation (GH-3691) (GH-3754)

- Remove the second mention about the `u` prefix
- Remove the second mention about numeric literals do not include a sign
(cherry picked from commit 4a2d00cb4525fcb3209f04531472ba6a359ed418)

files:
M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index c2fd2b74caa..4a5abf62768 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -446,9 +446,6 @@ instance of the :class:`bytes` type instead of the :class:`str` type.  They
 may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater
 must be expressed with escapes.
 
-As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix string literals with a
-``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases.
-
 Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'``
 or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as
 literal characters.  As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'``
@@ -799,10 +796,6 @@ Some examples of floating point literals::
 
    3.14    10.    .001    1e100    3.14e-10    0e0    3.14_15_93
 
-Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like ``-1`` is
-actually an expression composed of the unary operator ``-`` and the literal
-``1``.
-
 .. versionchanged:: 3.6
    Underscores are now allowed for grouping purposes in literals.