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r86293 | mark.dickinson | 2010-11-07 12:48:18 +0000 (Sun, 07 Nov 2010) | 1 line
Issue #10145: the float.is_integer method was undocumented.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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.. method:: float.as_integer_ratio()
- Return a pair of integers whose ratio is exactly equal to the
- original float and with a positive denominator. Raises
- :exc:`OverflowError` on infinities and a :exc:`ValueError` on
- NaNs.
+ Return a pair of integers whose ratio is exactly equal to the
+ original float and with a positive denominator. Raises
+ :exc:`OverflowError` on infinities and a :exc:`ValueError` on
+ NaNs.
+
+.. method:: float.is_integer()
+
+ Return ``True`` if the float instance is finite with integral
+ value, and ``False`` otherwise::
+
+ >>> (-2.0).is_integer()
+ True
+ >>> (3.2).is_integer()
+ False
Two methods support conversion to
and from hexadecimal strings. Since Python's floats are stored