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  r67857 | mark.dickinson | 2008-12-19 17:46:51 +0000 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in Python equivalent for bit_length.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index de00c491e79a30e417e390cb5296bd0022618c2b..a1eb6886b400626b1a4dce1fa66601adbdf53a33 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ Additional Methods on Integer Types
     Equivalent to::
 
         def bit_length(self):
-            s = bin(x)          # binary representation:  bin(-37) --> '-0b100101'
+            s = bin(self)       # binary representation:  bin(-37) --> '-0b100101'
             s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign
             return len(s)       # len('100101') --> 6