From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 20:17:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Repair docs for math.frexp (they were wrong).
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1122
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9c02c4cf3d3e508986d1e7a6840f3ef92f077a6;p=python

Repair docs for math.frexp (they were wrong).
Reported on c.l.py by Kirill Simonov.
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diff --git a/Modules/mathmodule.c b/Modules/mathmodule.c
index 45a865c47d..e8ef990954 100644
--- a/Modules/mathmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mathmodule.c
@@ -171,7 +171,9 @@ math_frexp(self, args)
 static char math_frexp_doc [] =
 "frexp(x)\n\
 \n\
-Return the matissa and exponent for x. The mantissa is positive.";
+Return the matissa and exponent of x, as pair (m, e).\n\
+m is a float and e is an int, such that x = m * 2.**e.\n\
+If x is 0, m and e are both 0.  Else 0.5 <= abs(m) < 1.0.";
 
 
 static PyObject *