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mdickinson · mdickinson · commit 36cea39b225e · 2009-10-03T10:18:40.000Z
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r75205 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-03 11:14:34 +0100 (Sat, 03 Oct 2009) | 2 lines Issue #7028: Add note to hex() builtin docs pointing to float.hex(). ........
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -489,6 +489,11 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    expression.  If *x* is not a Python :class:`int` object, it has to define an
    :meth:`__index__` method that returns an integer.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      To obtain a hexadecimal string representation for a float, use the
+      :meth:`float.hex` method.
+
 
 .. function:: id(object)
 
