Erik Y. Adams <erikyad...@outlook.com> added the comment:
I still think the most important aspect of this is that pow() will return complex numbers, contrary to what is implied by the statement I quoted at the beginning of this thread. Perhaps we should just borrow from the documentation for the power operator, which says: Raising 0.0 to a negative power results in a ZeroDivisionError. Raising a negative number to a fractional power results in a complex number. (In earlier versions it raised a ValueError.) https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#the-power-operator ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44344> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
