Merged revisions 60475-60479,60481-60488 via svnmerge from
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r60482 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-31 23:07:16 +0100 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Minor wordsmithing on docstring
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r60483 | mark.dickinson | 2008-01-31 23:17:37 +0100 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 5 lines
Issue #1678380. Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
in the same code unit. The fix is essentially the same as the fix for a
previous bug identifying 0. and -0.
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r60484 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-01 00:08:23 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fixed bug #1983: Return from fork() is pid_t, not int
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r60486 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-01 07:22:46 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
Move __builtins__.trunc() to math.trunc() per
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076626.html and issue
1965.
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r60487 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-01 08:05:46 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Roll back r60248. It's useful to encourage users not to change Rational
instances.
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r60488 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-01 08:22:59 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fix refleak
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diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst
index 958d60b..55f7933 100644
--- a/Doc/library/math.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/math.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@
Return the fractional and integer parts of *x*. Both results carry the sign of
*x*, and both are floats.
+
+.. function:: trunc(x)
+
+ Return the :class:`Real` value *x* truncated to an :class:`Integral` (usually
+ a long integer). Delegates to ``x.__trunc__()``.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
Note that :func:`frexp` and :func:`modf` have a different call/return pattern
than their C equivalents: they take a single argument and return a pair of
values, rather than returning their second return value through an 'output