[Python-checkins] Trivial change in fractions module docs: real -> rational numbers (GH-25009)

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Sat May 29 18:49:36 EDT 2021


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5ffa58cb97ddc6d36c8c2c94d86d58aac95406b7
commit: 5ffa58cb97ddc6d36c8c2c94d86d58aac95406b7
branch: main
author: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev at gmail.com>
committer: nanjekyejoannah <33177550+nanjekyejoannah at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2021-05-29T19:49:31-03:00
summary:

Trivial change in fractions module docs: real -> rational numbers (GH-25009)

Obviously, the former was a little misleading: not only rationals
may be considered as "infinite-precision, real numbers" - but, for
example, any real finite extension of the rationals.

files:
M Lib/fractions.py

diff --git a/Lib/fractions.py b/Lib/fractions.py
index 64a8959d7d48e..66e6831a5c7bc 100644
--- a/Lib/fractions.py
+++ b/Lib/fractions.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Originally contributed by Sjoerd Mullender.
 # Significantly modified by Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com>.
 
-"""Fraction, infinite-precision, real numbers."""
+"""Fraction, infinite-precision, rational numbers."""
 
 from decimal import Decimal
 import math



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