Westley MartÃnez, 25.03.2011 14:39:
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 07:11 +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Steven D'Aprano, 25.03.2011 06:46:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:32:11 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
It's probably the least justified builtin other than pow.
I don't know about that. Correctly, efficiently and *quickly*
implementing the three-argument version of pow is exactly the sort of
thing that should be in the built-ins, or at least the standard library.
I think that touches it already. We have a "math" module, so why is there a
*builtin* for doing special math? How much code is there really that only
uses pow() and does not import "math"?
pow() and math.pow() are different.
I don't find that a good excuse for pow() being a builtin. Why not just
rename it to "math.powmod" instead?
Stefan
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