Merged revisions 76861 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r76861 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-16 20:13:40 +0000 (Wed, 16 Dec 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #3366: Add expm1 function to math module.  Thanks Eric Smith for
  testing on Windows.
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diff --git a/Modules/mathmodule.c b/Modules/mathmodule.c
index ece68a7..ef84298 100644
--- a/Modules/mathmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mathmodule.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "Python.h"
+#include "_math.h"
 #include "longintrepr.h" /* just for SHIFT */
 
 #ifdef _OSF_SOURCE
@@ -722,6 +723,10 @@
       "cosh(x)\n\nReturn the hyperbolic cosine of x.")
 FUNC1(exp, exp, 1,
       "exp(x)\n\nReturn e raised to the power of x.")
+FUNC1(expm1, m_expm1, 1,
+      "expm1(x)\n\nReturn exp(x)-1.\n"
+      "This function avoids the loss of precision involved in the direct "
+      "evaluation of exp(x)-1 for small x.")
 FUNC1(fabs, fabs, 0,
       "fabs(x)\n\nReturn the absolute value of the float x.")
 
@@ -1493,6 +1498,7 @@
 	{"cosh",	math_cosh,	METH_O,		math_cosh_doc},
 	{"degrees",	math_degrees,	METH_O,		math_degrees_doc},
 	{"exp",		math_exp,	METH_O,		math_exp_doc},
+	{"expm1",	math_expm1,	METH_O,		math_expm1_doc},
 	{"fabs",	math_fabs,	METH_O,		math_fabs_doc},
 	{"factorial",	math_factorial,	METH_O,		math_factorial_doc},
 	{"floor",	math_floor,	METH_O,		math_floor_doc},