Merged revisions 60441-60474 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r60441 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-30 12:46:00 +0100 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Removed unused var
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r60448 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-30 18:21:22 +0100 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Fixed some references leaks in sys.
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r60450 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-30 19:58:29 +0100 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008) | 1 line
The previous change was causing a segfault after multiple calls to Py_Initialize() and Py_Finalize().
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r60463 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-30 23:17:31 +0100 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Update itertool recipes
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r60464 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-30 23:54:18 +0100 (Wed, 30 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
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r60469 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-31 02:38:15 +0100 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 6 lines
Fix defect in __ixor__ which would get the wrong
answer if the input iterable had a duplicate element
(two calls to toggle() reverse each other). Borrow
the correct code from sets.py.
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r60470 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-31 02:42:11 +0100 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Missing return
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r60471 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-31 08:44:11 +0100 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
Added more documentation on how mixed-mode arithmetic should be implemented. I
also noticed and fixed a bug in Rational's forward operators (they were
claiming all instances of numbers.Rational instead of just the concrete types).
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diff --git a/Lib/numbers.py b/Lib/numbers.py
index 6c3c3e1..4dd5ca7 100644
--- a/Lib/numbers.py
+++ b/Lib/numbers.py
@@ -291,7 +291,13 @@
# Concrete implementation of Real's conversion to float.
def __float__(self):
- """float(self) = self.numerator / self.denominator"""
+ """float(self) = self.numerator / self.denominator
+
+ It's important that this conversion use the integer's "true"
+ division rather than casting one side to float before dividing
+ so that ratios of huge integers convert without overflowing.
+
+ """
return self.numerator / self.denominator