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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
index ef021dd9b7cd5b8db6c73719170ac8d50e56eb78..4816f530ca3e928db954be570122985bb5e421a0 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -489,6 +489,11 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    expression.  If *x* is not a Python :class:`int` object, it has to define an
    :meth:`__index__` method that returns an integer.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      To obtain a hexadecimal string representation for a float, use the
+      :meth:`float.hex` method.
+
 
 .. function:: id(object)