Thanks Ben, with your encouragement I have filed http://bugs.python.org/issue23201
-- Devin On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> writes: > >> What you don't say is which behavior you actually expected. Since >> 0**0 is undefined mathematically, I'd expect either an exception or a >> NAN result. > > Do you think that the ‘int’ and ‘float’ types, which do produce a number > result for ‘0 ** 0’, are buggy and should be fixed? > > I think the inconsistency is unnecessarily confusing. Perhaps the > consistency is in standards outside Python, but I think there is cause > here either for a change of behaviour or, if ther eis a good rationale > for the incompatible behaviours, to document the rationale. In either > case, a bug report is warranted IMO. > > -- > \ “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that | > `\ divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of | > _o__) being correct.” —Niels Bohr (to Wolfgang Pauli), 1958 | > Ben Finney > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
