On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Schizoid Man <schiz_...@21stcentury.com> wrote: > So how is operator.pow() different from just pow()?
math.pow() is a wrapper around the C library function. ** and operator.pow() are the same thing; the latter is just a function version of the former. The built-in pow() is a mutant version that takes either 2 or 3 arguments. With 2 arguments, pow(a, b) is again equivalent to a ** b. With 3 arguments, pow(a, b, c) is equivalent to but more efficient than a ** b % c, but a and b are restricted to integers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
