On Sep 22, 7:50 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > Everybody forgets that pow can take three arguments, except of course for > those who use that functionality and would be mighty peeved if it went > away.
And who is it who uses this functionality? It's useful in elementary number theory, sure, but I'd argue that if there are going to be number theoretical functions in the core then there are other things, like gcd(), that are far more deserving of inclusion. It comes up in the RSA cryptosystem, but if you're using Python's pow for this then you're surely only writing a toy RSA implementation, perhaps for educational purposes(?). Neither of these seem like compelling arguments to have pow in the core. Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
