Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: >> Sathyaish wrote: >> >>> I tried it on the interpreter and it looks like it is the "to the power >>> of" operator symbol/function. Can you please point me to the formal >>> definition of this operator in the docs? >> >> http://docs.python.org/ref/power.html > > I think this should be also mentioned in the Built-In Functions section > of the Library Reference. Probably most users do not read the Language > Reference (since the main menu says it's "for language lawyers" and yes, > it is not really fun to read).
I agree and think the "for language lawyers" should be changed to something that encourages people to read it instead of encouraging them to avoid it. Maybe: "The Python language structure for everyone". If it's hard to read and understand, then that can and should be fixed. It probably should be moved to a position before the library reference manual and after the tutorial. Looking over the language reference manual will help in understanding the library reference manual I think. Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list