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  r76491 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:33:29 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 9 lines

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    r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index 94afaff14e4479982cbf2ea5e007da2aa5ad6104..c5af2fd4c3d8df4f962e536a7181a263542ee755 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f.  The ``str()``
 function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number
 that was probably intended::
 
-   >>> 0.2
-   0.20000000000000001
-   >>> print 0.2
+   >>> 1.1 - 0.9
+   0.20000000000000007
+   >>> print(1.1 - 0.9)
    0.2
 
 One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result