From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 04:54:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~650
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3b18d7ca8e0b47c67d7d73b75c20a25eda6041f;p=python

Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex
index 46fdd6d35d..a7e635153a 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex
@@ -568,9 +568,9 @@ a_expr:         m_expr | aexpr "+" m_expr | aexpr "-" m_expr
 
 The \code{*} (multiplication) operator yields the product of its
 arguments.  The arguments must either both be numbers, or one argument
-must be a plain integer and the other must be a sequence.  In the
-former case, the numbers are converted to a common type and then
-multiplied together.  In the latter case, sequence repetition is
+must be an integer (plain or long) and the other must be a sequence.
+In the former case, the numbers are converted to a common type and
+then multiplied together.  In the latter case, sequence repetition is
 performed; a negative repetition factor yields an empty sequence.
 \index{multiplication}