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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 684119a443..caa59e503d 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -446,9 +446,6 @@ instance of the :class:`bytes` type instead of the :class:`str` type. They may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater must be expressed with escapes. -As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix string literals with a -``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases. - Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'`` or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as literal characters. As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'`` @@ -799,10 +796,6 @@ Some examples of floating point literals:: 3.14 10. .001 1e100 3.14e-10 0e0 3.14_15_93 -Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like ``-1`` is -actually an expression composed of the unary operator ``-`` and the literal -``1``. - .. versionchanged:: 3.6 Underscores are now allowed for grouping purposes in literals. |