Merged revisions 67886-67887 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ................ r67886 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 18:06:59 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 93 lines Merged revisions 67654,67676-67677,67681,67692,67725,67761,67784-67785,67787-67788,67802,67848-67850,67862-67864,67880,67882 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r67654 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 16:42:09 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines #4457: rewrite __import__() documentation. ........ r67676 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:03:03 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line specify how things are copied ........ r67677 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:05:11 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line revert unrelated change to installer script ........ r67681 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-12-09 15:03:10 -0600 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008) | 2 lines Add simple unittests for Request ........ r67692 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-10 18:03:42 -0600 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 2 lines #1030250: correctly pass the dry_run option to the mkpath() function. ........ r67725 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-12 22:02:20 -0600 (Fri, 12 Dec 2008) | 1 line fix incorrect example ........ r67761 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-14 11:26:04 -0600 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line fix missing bracket ........ r67784 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:33:58 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines #4446: document "platforms" argument for setup(). ........ r67785 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:36:11 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines #4611: fix typo. ........ r67787 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:58:59 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines #4578: fix has_key() usage in compiler package. ........ r67788 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 03:07:39 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines #4568: remove limitation in varargs callback example. ........ r67802 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-15 16:29:14 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 4 lines #3632: the "pyo" macro from gdbinit can now run when the GIL is released. Patch by haypo. ........ r67848 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:28:56 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line fix typo ........ r67849 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:31:35 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line _call_method -> _callmethod and _get_value to _getvalue ........ r67850 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-12-19 03:06:07 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 9 lines Fix-up and clean-up docs for int.bit_length(). * Replace dramatic footnote with in-line comment about possible round-off errors in logarithms of large numbers. * Add comments to the pure python code equivalent. * replace floor() with int() in the mathematical equivalent so the type is correct (should be an int, not a float). * add abs() to the mathematical equivalent so that it matches the previous line that it is supposed to be equivalent to. * make one combined example with a negative input. ........ r67862 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:48:02 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line copy sentence from docstring ........ r67863 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:51:26 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line add headings ........ r67864 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:57:19 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line beef up docstring ........ r67880 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:49:24 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line remove redundant sentence ........ r67882 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:59:49 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line add some recent releases to the list ........ ................ r67887 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 18:16:13 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 9 lines Merged revisions 67885 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r67885 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 17:48:54 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line silence annoying DeprecationWarning ........ ................

--- a/Modules/mathmodule.c	Sat Dec 20 13:23:02 2008 +0000
+++ b/Modules/mathmodule.c	Sun Dec 21 00:55:55 2008 +0000
@@ -685,7 +685,10 @@
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-PyDoc_STRVAR(math_factorial_doc, "Return n!");
+PyDoc_STRVAR(math_factorial_doc,
+"factorial(x) -> Integral\n"
+"\n"
+"Find x!. Raise a ValueError if x is negative or non-integral.");
 
 static PyObject *
 math_trunc(PyObject *self, PyObject *number)
@@ -837,7 +840,7 @@
 "modf(x)\n"
 "\n"
 "Return the fractional and integer parts of x.  Both results carry the sign\n"
-"of x.  The integer part is returned as a real.");
+"of x and are floats.");
 
 /* A decent logarithm is easy to compute even for huge longs, but libm can't
    do that by itself -- loghelper can.  func is log or log10, and name is