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r60054 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 20:12:56 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Silence Coverity false alerts with CIDs #172, #183, #184
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r60057 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-18 21:56:30 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
Fix an edge case whereby the __del__() method of a classic class could
create a new weakref to the object.
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r60058 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-18 22:14:58 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Better variable name in an example.
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r60063 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-19 00:05:40 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
This got fixed for classic classes in r60057,
and backported to 2.5.2 in 60056.
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r60068 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-19 10:56:06 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
Several tweaks: add construction from strings and .from_decimal(), change
__init__ to __new__ to enforce immutability, and remove "rational." from repr
and the parens from str.
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r60069 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:11:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix markup.
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r60070 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:16:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
Amend curses docs by info how to write non-ascii characters.
Thanks to Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.
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r60071 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:18:07 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Indentation normalization.
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r60073 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-19 13:32:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 5 lines
Fix issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
just-created (and empty) instance. Added tests for this. Thanks
Jonathan Share.
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r60074 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 14:33:20 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Polish sentence
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r60075 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 14:46:06 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Added unit test to verify that threading.local doesn't cause ref leaks. It seems that the thread local storage always keeps the storage of the last stopped thread alive. Can anybody comment on it, please?
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r60076 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 16:06:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Update for threading.local test.
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r60077 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 16:16:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Polish sentence
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r60078 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 16:22:16 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typos.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/rational.rst b/Doc/library/rational.rst
index dd18305..8ed702f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/rational.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/rational.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
.. class:: Rational(numerator=0, denominator=1)
Rational(other_rational)
+ Rational(string)
The first version requires that *numerator* and *denominator* are
instances of :class:`numbers.Integral` and returns a new
@@ -22,10 +23,12 @@
*denominator* is :const:`0`, raises a :exc:`ZeroDivisionError`. The
second version requires that *other_rational* is an instance of
:class:`numbers.Rational` and returns an instance of
- :class:`Rational` with the same value.
+ :class:`Rational` with the same value. The third version expects a
+ string of the form ``[-+]?[0-9]+(/[0-9]+)?``, optionally surrounded
+ by spaces.
Implements all of the methods and operations from
- :class:`numbers.Rational` and is hashable.
+ :class:`numbers.Rational` and is immutable and hashable.
.. method:: Rational.from_float(flt)
@@ -36,6 +39,13 @@
10)``
+.. method:: Rational.from_decimal(dec)
+
+ This classmethod constructs a :class:`Rational` representing the
+ exact value of *dec*, which must be a
+ :class:`decimal.Decimal`.
+
+
.. method:: Rational.__floor__()
Returns the greatest :class:`int` ``<= self``. Will be accessible