Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Agreed that this is at worst a doc issue.
[Antoine] > and in all honesty I don't know the difference between the "**" operator > and the built-in pow() function :-) None, as far as I know, apart from the pow function's ability to take a 3rd argument. Both ultimately call PyNumber_Power, and the various type-specific __pow__ methods take over from there. [+1 for removing pow from the builtins and shunting three-argument pow to the math module in Python 5000000.] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15438> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com