Mark Dickinson added the comment: [Raymond, quoting Matlab]
> in cases where both real and complex roots exist, power returns only the > complex roots. Yes, this would be the main motivation for me, too, if only to be able to answer the many StackOverflow questions like this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30923838/how-to-get-the-real-cube-root-of-a-negative-number-in-python3 +1 for a private function in the statistics module for now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27353> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
