#3912: document default for *places* arg.

georg.brandl · georg.brandl · commit f634e4c333ce · 2008-09-21T07:15:59.000Z
git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk@66524 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771
diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ failures.
             TestCase.failUnlessAlmostEqual(first, second[, places[, msg]])
 
    Test that *first* and *second* are approximately equal by computing the
-   difference, rounding to the given number of *places*, and comparing to zero.
+   difference, rounding to the given number of decimal *places* (default 7), 
+   and comparing to zero.
    Note that comparing a given number of decimal places is not the same as
    comparing a given number of significant digits. If the values do not compare
    equal, the test will fail with the explanation given by *msg*, or :const:`None`.
@@ -605,7 +606,8 @@ failures.
             TestCase.failIfAlmostEqual(first, second[, places[, msg]])
 
    Test that *first* and *second* are not approximately equal by computing the
-   difference, rounding to the given number of *places*, and comparing to zero.
+   difference, rounding to the given number of decimal *places* (default 7), 
+   and comparing to zero.
    Note that comparing a given number of decimal places is not the same as
    comparing a given number of significant digits. If the values do not compare
    equal, the test will fail with the explanation given by *msg*, or :const:`None`.
