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r75205 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-03 11:14:34 +0100 (Sat, 03 Oct 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #7028: Add note to hex() builtin docs pointing to float.hex().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
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@@ -510,6 +510,11 @@
Convert an integer number (of any size) to a hexadecimal string. The result is a
valid Python expression.
+ .. note::
+
+ To obtain a hexadecimal string representation for a float, use the
+ :meth:`float.hex` method.
+
.. versionchanged:: 2.4
Formerly only returned an unsigned literal.