In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Have a look at this: > > > >>>> -123**0 > > -1 > > > > > > The result is not correct, because every number (positive or negative) > > raised to the power of 0 is ALWAYS 1 (a positive number 1 that is). > > No python is correct. you're expression parses this way, when converted > to a lisp-ish prefix expression: > > (- (123 ** 0 )) Yeah, it's just the standard parser. For other situations Python does fine. E.g. In [1]: x=-1 In [2]: x**0 Out[2]: 1 -- -- Lou Pecora -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
