Chris Rebert added the comment: This behavior seems to be required by the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification (http://speleotrove.com/decimal/daexcep.html ):
> The following exceptional conditions can occur: > [...] > Invalid operation > This occurs and signals "invalid-operation" if: > [...] > * both operands of the "power" operation are zero "signals invalid-operation" apparently being mapped by default in Python to "raise the InvalidOperation exception". ---------- nosy: +cvrebert _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23201> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
