Robert Kern writes: > On 2010-02-11 06:31 AM, Shashwat Anand wrote: > > There is a little issue here that '>>> -.1 ** .1' should give you > > error message. That is it. > > No, fractional powers of negative numbers are perfectly valid > mathematically. The result is a complex number. In Python 3 (what > the OP is using), this has been implemented, but not in Python 2.6.
Perhaps it should raise a MisleadingSpacingError at compile time. The error message could recommend - .1**.1, or better -(.1 ** .1). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
