From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:09:50 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Issue #28615: Backport imaginary/complex number text from 3.x. X-Git-Tag: v2.7.13rc1~39 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fed0883e948f4dc83c27fee5bc730f34d96098be;p=python Issue #28615: Backport imaginary/complex number text from 3.x. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 60c570b7c1..9f5255a58a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ represented as a plain integer, in which case they yield a long integer. Integer literals with an ``'L'`` or ``'l'`` suffix yield long integers (``'L'`` is preferred because ``1l`` looks too much like eleven!). Numeric literals containing a decimal point or an exponent sign yield floating point numbers. -Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields a complex number with a -zero real part. A complex numeric literal is the sum of a real and an imaginary -part. +Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields an imaginary number +(a complex number with a zero real part) which you can add to an integer or +float to get a complex number with real and imaginary parts. .. index:: single: arithmetic