[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sep 22, 7:04 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:17:38 +0000, Bryan Olson wrote: >>> The operator module offers pow(). Is there any good reason for >>> pow() as a built-in? >> The `operator.pow()` is just the function for ``**``, it lacks the >> optional third argument of the built in `pow()`. >> >> Ciao, >> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch > > But does the three-argument version of pow() really belong in the > core? Who uses it?
It was a common cryptographic operation. The two-argument version is used by the same person who wrote the semi-colon at the end of every line of the code I'm working with. Personally, I'm sorry that 'and' and 'or' weren't chosen for the bitwise operators: I'd happily give up 'and' and 'or' for logic operations. [david] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
