tiissa wrote: > bill wrote: >>>From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": >> >> "Integers >> These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole >> numbers." >> >> The generally recognized definition of a 'whole number' is zero and the >> positive integers. > > This term is ambiguous as it seems to be used for both natural numbers > and signed numbers [1].
I cleared this up; now it reads "... set of whole numbers (positive and negative ones)." Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list